Helping Those Who Need It the Least: A Counterfactual and Comparative Analysis of Whether Informal Mentoring Promotes Economic Upward Mobility for Low- and Middle-Income Youth

Autor/inn/en	Gowdy, Grace; Miller, Daniel P.; Spencer, Renée
Titel	Helping Those Who Need It the Least: A Counterfactual and Comparative Analysis of Whether Informal Mentoring Promotes Economic Upward Mobility for Low- and Middle-Income Youth
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 53 (2021) 7, S.1152-1180 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gowdy, Grace)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X20959241
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Social Mobility; Economic Factors; Low Income Groups; Middle Class; Correlation; Young Adults; Role Models; Secondary School Students; Resources; Socioeconomic Status; Neighborhoods; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Soziale Mobilität; Ökonomischer Faktor; Mittelschicht; Korrelation; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Identifikationsfigur; Sekundarschüler; Betriebsmittel; Hilfsmittel; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft
Abstract	Although there have been calls to expand mentoring as way to redress the growing problem of economic immobility in the United States, no study to date has directly examined whether mentoring and economic mobility are related. Using multiple waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and employing a propensity score matching approach, this quasi-experimental study compares youth who report having had an informal adult mentor in adolescence with those who did not from both low-income (N = 795) and middle-income (N = 3,158) samples to test whether having an informal mentor in adolescence is associated with economic mobility in early adulthood. We find that middle-income youth who report having had an informal mentor in adolescence are more likely to be upwardly mobile than those who did not but the same did not hold true for the low-income youth. Implications and directions for future research are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01