401. Social Captial in Action: Alignment of Parental Support in Adolescents’ Transition to Postseconday Edcuation.
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Doo Hwan Kim and Schneider, Barbara
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SOCIAL capital ,HIGHER education ,OCCUPATIONAL prestige ,CHILDREN of immigrants ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,EDUCATION - Abstract
College Selectivity is more significant in the era of college for all. Other than academic ability, research on the transition to college has documented the persistent effect of social backgrounds on the college matriculation process. However, most predictors in previous research have focused on static characteristics of the family such as family composition, income, educational attainment, and occupational status. Building on the dynamic characteristics of alignment proposed by Schneider and Stevenson (1999), this research further explores conditions that ease the transition to college, especially for students who are disadvantaged, e.g. children of immigrants. Using the data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS: 88-94), this research asks the question: To what extents does parental actions influence college selectivity, taking into account students? academic ability? The inquiry entails another question: Does the competition process for college selectivity differ from the choice process of beginning college type (e.g., two- versus four-year colleges)? This study examines multinomial logit for differentiating transition process among various college types and Heckman selection model for college selectivity. Results show that alignment of parents? and students? goals increases the odds for the selective transition to postsecondary schooling. In particular, for college selectivity, the influence of parental education is contingent upon alignment of parents? and students? goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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