title: Neighborhood and family influences on educational attainment: results from the Ontario child health study follow-up 2001.
abstract: This study uses multilevel models to examine longitudinal associations between contextual influences (neighborhood and family) assessed in 1983 in a cohort of 2,355 children, 4-16 years of age, and educational attainment in 2001. Variation in educational attainment in 2001 attributable to between-neighborhood and between-family differences was 8.17% and 36.88%, respectively. The final model explained 33.64% of the variance in educational attainment, with unique variances of 14.53% for neighborhood and family-level variables combined versus 10.94% for child-level variables. Among the neighborhood and family-level variables, indicators of status (5.29%) versus parental capacity/family process (4.03%) made comparable predictions to attainment while children from economically disadvantaged families did not benefit educationally from living in more affluent areas.
authors.affiliation: Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Chedoke Division, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Box 2000, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. boylem@mcmaster.ca
authors.forename: Michael H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Boyle
authors.forename: Katholiki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Georgiades
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Racine
authors.forename: Cameron
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mustard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009864:Ontario; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology; D011678:Punishment; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012931:Social Environment; D013223:Statistics as Topic