Is social capital durable?: How family social bonds influence college enrollment and completion

Mikaela J Dufur, Toby L Parcel, David B Braudt and John P Hoffmann

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-25

Abstract: A large literature demonstrates that social capital has positive effects on outcomes for children, but we know little about whether social capital is durable, i.e., whether its effects persist long after its creation. We use two nationally representative data sets of U.S. high school students and structural equation modeling designed for binomial outcomes to examine the durability of returns to social capital created in the family on both college enrollment and college completion. Controlling for selected school characteristics, race, family, SES and other factors, results suggest that family social capital continues to have strong associations with outcomes increasingly distant from its creation. Family SES has a smaller but positive effect on both college enrollment and college completion. These findings suggest that social capital can be a durable good if formed in the family, and that family SES is also influential.

Date: 2024
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