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Direct linkGrissom, Jason A.; Reininger, Michelle – Education Finance and Policy, 2012
While a large literature examines the factors that lead teachers to leave teaching, few studies have examined what factors affect teachers' decisions to reenter the profession. Drawing on research on the role of family characteristics in predicting teacher work behavior, we examine predictors of reentry. We employ survival analysis of time to…
Descriptors: Females, Experienced Teachers, Child Rearing, Predictor Variables
Atkins, Robert; Hart, Daniel; Donnelly, Thomas M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
Using a longitudinal design, we investigated the relation of childhood personality type to volunteering during adolescence. We hypothesized that participants with more adaptive personality functioning during childhood would be more likely to volunteer during adolescence and that membership in social organizations would mediate the relation of…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Social Influences, Coping, Children
Download full textCook, Philip J.; Hutchinson, Rebecca – Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 2006
This paper presents an exploratory analysis using NLSY97 data of the relationship between the likelihood of school continuation and the choices of whether to smoke or drink. We demonstrate that in the United States as of the late 1990s, smoking in 11th-grade was a uniquely powerful predictor of whether the student finished high school, and if so…
Descriptors: Smoking, Dropouts, Drinking, Adolescents
Schildhaus, Sam; Shaw-Taylor, Yoku; Pedlow, Steven; Pergamit, Michael R. – Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2004
The primary aim of this study was to describe the movement of adolescents and young adults into and out of drug use and to predict heavy drug use. The data source is the Department of Labor's National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which began in 1979 with a sample of 12,686 adolescents aged 14-21. After 17 rounds and 19 years, the response rate in…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Young Adults, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
Hill, Carolyn J.; Holzer, Harry J. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2006
This paper analyzes labor market behaviors of young adults, their changing patterns among two cohorts that are twenty years apart, and their associations with transitions to adulthood as measured by living with parents, being married, or cohabiting. We analyze these issues using data from the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of he National Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Young Adults, Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys
Zill, Nicholas – 1992
Education professionals have long known that family background is a stronger predictor of academic success than are school or teacher characteristics. The past 30 years have seen a series of drastic alterations in patterns of family living in the United States, and these changes mean that a substantial number of youngsters are being born or are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
