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ERIC Number: EJ650179
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2445
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Economic Disadvantage, Family Dynamics, and Adolescent Enrollment in Higher Education.
Crosnoe, Robert; Mistry, Rashmita S.; Elder, Glen H., Jr.
Journal of Marriage and Family, v64 n3 p690-702 Aug 2002
Applies a family process model to the linkage between early economic disadvantage and later enrollment in higher education. Using two waves of data on low-income youth, results found that the attitudes and behaviors of their parents, mostly mothers, mediate the impact of disadvantage on enrollment. (Contains 36 references and 3 tables.) (GCP)
Descriptors: College Attendance, Economically Disadvantaged, Enrollment, Higher Education, Parent Attitudes, Parent Student Relationship
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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