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Educational Attainment, Teacher-Student Ratios, and the Risk of Adult Incarceration among U.S. Birth Cohorts since 1910
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Arum, Richard; LaFree, Gary – Sociology of Education, 2008
Little is known about the relationship between school characteristics, such as teacher-student ratios, and the risk of incarceration in adulthood. Educational skeptics argue that investment in schools has little effect on outcomes, such as criminality or the risk of incarceration, because criminal propensities are fixed at an early age and…
Descriptors: Social Control, Educational Attainment, Economic Opportunities, Educational Resources
Latinas' Transition to First Marriage: An Examination of Four Theoretical Perspectives
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Lloyd, Kim M. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and census data are used to examine the effect of both individual- and contextual-level determinants on Latinas' transition to first marriage (n = 745). Hypotheses derived from 4 leading theories of marriage timing are evaluated. Discrete-time event-history models that control for clustering within Labor…
Descriptors: Probability, Marriage, Economic Opportunities, Labor Market
Do High School Dropouts Benefit from Obtaining a GED?
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Murnane, Richard J.; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1995
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for 1979 through 1991 are used to demonstrate that acquisition of the General Educational Development (GED) credential is associated with an increase in the rate of wage growth for male high school dropouts. (SLD)
Descriptors: Dropouts, Economic Opportunities, Educational Certificates, Employment Patterns