Breaking the Cycle: The Role of School Policies in Combatting Familial Disadvantage

Grant Year: 2024

Briana Ballis and Andrew Johnston will lead an effort to better understand the impact of family structure and background on young people’s success in school and later in life. They will link data on student educational and employment outcomes with data from birth records, marriage and divorce records, residential histories, and criminal justice system records. Their merged data will make it possible to analyze the effects of family background on outcomes and to assess whether education-related interventions can mitigate challenging family circumstances. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers.