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Direct linkDuggan, Michael B. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice, 2004
This study addressed the influence of social capital factors on the first-year persistence of beginning first- and second-generation four-year college students. First-generation students were those students whose parents had never attended college. Second-generation students had at least one parent who attended college. A case was made for…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Social Capital
