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Abstract:
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Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), this paper examines the effects of homeownership, rentership, and the quality of adolescents' homes on math and reading achievement percentile scores. Previous research has focused on academic achievement, the Black-White achievement gap, adolescents, and homeownership, but few have studied homeownership's effect on academic achievement across races during adolescence. The NLSY79 is a large nationally representative data set that contains information about homeownership, race, and academic achievement scores which allow for quantitative analysis. The estimates indicate that homeownership may positively contribute to an adolescent's percentile scores in reading, but not in math. This finding builds on past work in that it shows that the determinants to academic success are complex and numerous. |