Growing up poor but doing well: Contextual factors that predict academic success.

ABSTRACT: This paper combines data on family, school, neighborhood, and city contexts with survey data from the Year 9 (n = 2,193) and Year 15 (n = 2, 236) Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to study children in America's inner-cities who are "beating the odds". We identify children as beating the odds if they were born to families of low socio-economic status but scored above the state average in reading, vocabulary and math at age 9, and were academically on-track by age 15. We also examine if the influences of these contexts are developmentally nuanced. We find that living in two parent households where harsh parenting methods are absent (family context) and living in neighborhoods where two parent families predominate (neighborhood context) are protective factors that help

SUBMITTER: Jagannathan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10275340 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature