Does education pay for youth formerly in foster care? Comparison of employment outcomes with a national sample

By Nathanael J. Okpych, M. Courtney. 2014

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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1. M. Courtney

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1. Jennifer L. Hook
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• The potential educational benefits of extending foster care to young adults: findings from a natural experiment (2017, background): “…increased levels of education have larger benefits for former foster youth than for youth from the general population, and at higher levels of educational attainment the two groups have similar employment rates, and earnings gaps between the groups become less pronounced (Okpych & Courtney, 2014).”