Early School Adjustment and Educational Attainment.

ABSTRACT: Although school attainment is a cumulative process combining mastery of both academic and behavioral skills, most studies have offered only a piecemeal view of the associations between middle childhood capacities and subsequent schooling outcomes. Using a 20-year longitudinal dataset, this study estimates the association between children's academic skills, anti-social behaviors and attention problems, all averaged across middle childhood, and their long-term educational outcomes. After adjusting for family and individual background measures, we find that high average levels of math and reading achievement, and low average levels of anti-social behavior problems, are positively associated with later attainment. Associations between attention problems and attainment are small. Associations a

SUBMITTER: Magnuson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4993460 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature