Household wealth and adolescents' social-emotional functioning in schools

RK Ream, MA Gottfried - Social Science Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This study attempts a two-part shift in educational research narrowly fixated on the
socioeconomic determinants of student test-score performance. First, we focus on variations
in how to measure wealth. Second, we move beyond achievement and focus on the wealth
determinants of adolescents' social-emotional competencies. Using data from a nationally-
representative sample of US eighth graders, we find that the correlation between wealth and
social-emotional competencies varies according to how the partitions among the upper …