Diminished Returns of Parental Education in Terms of Youth School Performance: Ruling out Regression toward the Mean.
Shervin AssariShanika BoyceMohsen BazarganCleopatra H CaldwellPublished in: Children (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)
Diminished returns of parental education on the school performance of Black and Hispanic youth cannot be explained by regression toward the mean. Other factors and contextual processes, such as segregation, discrimination, racism, and poor quality of schools in urban areas, should be investigated in future research.