All wealth is not created equal: Race, parental net worth, and children's achievement
JA Conwell, LZ Ye - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2021 - rsfjournal.org
Using data from the children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort,
spanning 1986 to 2014, we investigated whether White, Black, and Hispanic children whose
parents had the same wealth, measured as net worth, have equal math and reading
achievement trajectories from age five through fourteen. Black and Hispanic children often
had significantly worse scores than same-wealth Whites. We also found racial variation, to
the disadvantage of Blacks and Hispanics relative to same-wealth Whites, in measures of …
spanning 1986 to 2014, we investigated whether White, Black, and Hispanic children whose
parents had the same wealth, measured as net worth, have equal math and reading
achievement trajectories from age five through fourteen. Black and Hispanic children often
had significantly worse scores than same-wealth Whites. We also found racial variation, to
the disadvantage of Blacks and Hispanics relative to same-wealth Whites, in measures of …