School Retention by Race, Religion, and Socioeconomic Status

Charles B. Nam, A. Lewis Rhodes and Robert E. Herriott

Journal of Human Resources, 1968, vol. 3, issue 2, 171-190

Abstract: Data from a national survey of inequalities in educational opportunity were analyzed to estimate the independent and joint effects of race, socioeconomic level, religion, and place of residence on chances of boys and girls dropping out of high school. Low socioeconomic level, non-Catholic religious identification, and residence in the South were found to be more closely associated than the other variables with leaving school before graduation; these relationships were relatively independent of race and urban residence. The latter were associated with leaving school, but the relationships were not independent of effects of the former. Patterns of interaction were examined, and blue-collar Negro males in the urbanized areas of the North and West and blue-collar white males in the more rural part of the South were found to have much higher dropout rates than expected.

Date: 1968
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