PURPOSE: To assess the association between four positive youth development (PYD)
constructs of confidence and adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) outcomes …

Sociologists have long used educational expectations to understand the complex mental
processes underlying individuals' educational decision making. Yet, little research evaluates …

Previous research on undocumented youth and young adults in the United States asserts
that immigration status is a 'master status', wherein undocumented status overshadows the …

This study focuses on micro-level interrelationships between the educational trajectories of
women and the transition to motherhood. We disentangle the impact of events in one …

In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or
crying children saying such things as “I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school …

Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we identify parental age
as influential in the parental provision of economic resources, social capital and cultural …

This paper examines how school engagement influences the timing of family formation for
youth. We pay particular attention to variation across four racial/ethnic groups and by …

Abstract In the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), young fathers include
heterogeneous subgroups with varying early life pathways in terms of fatherhood timing, the …

Este estudo investigou as relações entre reprovação escolar, percepções quanto à escola e
expectativas de futuro entre jovens, a partir de dados de uma amostra de 610 jovens com …

The decrease in adolescent birth rates in the United States has been slower among Latinas
than among other ethnic/racial groups. Limited research has explored how socioeconomic …