Linda Steffel Olson
Biographic Data
| ID | 258294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Steffel Olson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda Steffel |
| FAMILY NAME | Olson |
| SIGNATURE | OLSON L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 396 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Adult Transition of At-Risk Youth
This paper takes a life course perspective on differences in high school exit mode and its consequences for students not going to four-year colleges. Using detailed life history data from the Baltimore Beginning School Study archive, we show that the employment rate for dropouts who later get diplomas is higher than the rate for dropouts who later get GEDs, other things equal. Put another way, after taking into account personal and social assets,…
Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap
Prior research has demonstrated that summer learning rooted in family and community influences widens the achievement gap across social lines, while schooling offsets those family and community influences. In this article, we examine the long-term educational consequences of summer learning differences by family socioeconomic level. Using data from the Baltimore Beginning School Study youth panel, we decompose achievement scores at the start of h…
Early Schooling
In trying to understand the origin of gender differences favoring girls in reading skills, analysts have examined mainly the performance of students who are in the same grade, with samples pooled across socioeconomic status (SES). Using a longitudinal sample in Baltimore, where all students in a randomly selected panel are the same age and are followed from the beginning of the first grade, the authors found that the early reading skills of boys …
Urban Teenagers
This article explores how employment affects the likelihood of dropout among high school students in Baltimore, a high-poverty city with a high dropout rate. Among 15-year-olds, those with teen jobs (e.g., lawn mowing, babysitting, etc.) were less than one third as likely to drop out as those who took adult-type jobs (manufacturing or business). This pattern reversed at age 16, however, because, at that age, holding an adult-type job as compared …
First Grade and Educational Attainment by Age 22
Studies of the persistence of social stratification rely heavily on students' experience in secondary schools. In this study, outcomes for a randomly selected panel of Baltimore children, followed from age 6 to age 22, demonstrate that first graders' social contexts and personal resources explain educational attainment levels in early adulthood about as well as do similar resources measured in adolescence. Years of schooling and the highest level…
Schools, Achievement, and Inequality
Are there socioeconomic differences in the seasonality of children’s learning over the school year and summer months? The achievement gap across social lines increases during the primary grades, as much research indicates, but descriptive analyses and HLM within-person growth models for a representative panel of Baltimore school children demonstrate that the increase can be traced mainly to the out-of-school environment (i.e., influences situated…
Early Work Histories of Urban Youth
Using a life course framework, we examine Baltimore adolescents' paid work from ages 13 to 18 to describe (1) the start of the transition to adulthood; (2) how work interlaces with schooling; (3) how work is segmented along sociodemographic lines, and (4) how early work (at ages 13 and 14) affects later high school work (at ages 15 to 18). White youth in Baltimore more often held jobs than did African American youth, even though African Americans…
Paid Work in Early Adolescence
Descriptive data on paid work performed both by White and African American students in Baltimore were collected as part of a more extensive longitudinal study. More than one-half of the youth worked for pay during the school year at 13 and 14 years of age, and around 70% worked during the summers. Those who started work the earliest were those who had done more chores at home. Patterns of work by these relatively low socioeconomic status (SES) st…
The Gender Gap in Math
Les AA. montrent que les differences entre les deux sexes dans la plupart des disciplines scolaires tend a diminuer mais ils constatent, au niveau de l'enseignement primaire, une difference entre garcons et filles en faveur de ces derniers en ce qui concerne le niveau de connaissance en mathematiques. Ils s'efforcent de comprendre le phenomene et cela a partir d'une enquete menee aupres d'enfants du primaire a Baltimore. Ils montrent que les garc…
Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap
Prior research has demonstrated that summer learning rooted in family and community influences widens the achievement gap across social lines, while schooling offsets those family and community influences. In this article, we examine the long-term educational consequences of summer learning differences by family socioeconomic level. Using data from the Baltimore Beginning School Study youth panel, we decompose achievement scores at the start of h…
First Grade and Educational Attainment by Age 22
Studies of the persistence of social stratification rely heavily on students' experience in secondary schools. In this study, outcomes for a randomly selected panel of Baltimore children, followed from age 6 to age 22, demonstrate that first graders' social contexts and personal resources explain educational attainment levels in early adulthood about as well as do similar resources measured in adolescence. Years of schooling and the highest level…
The Gender Gap in Math
Les AA. montrent que les differences entre les deux sexes dans la plupart des disciplines scolaires tend a diminuer mais ils constatent, au niveau de l'enseignement primaire, une difference entre garcons et filles en faveur de ces derniers en ce qui concerne le niveau de connaissance en mathematiques. Ils s'efforcent de comprendre le phenomene et cela a partir d'une enquete menee aupres d'enfants du primaire a Baltimore. Ils montrent que les garc…
Early Schooling
In trying to understand the origin of gender differences favoring girls in reading skills, analysts have examined mainly the performance of students who are in the same grade, with samples pooled across socioeconomic status (SES). Using a longitudinal sample in Baltimore, where all students in a randomly selected panel are the same age and are followed from the beginning of the first grade, the authors found that the early reading skills of boys …
Early Work Histories of Urban Youth
Using a life course framework, we examine Baltimore adolescents' paid work from ages 13 to 18 to describe (1) the start of the transition to adulthood; (2) how work interlaces with schooling; (3) how work is segmented along sociodemographic lines, and (4) how early work (at ages 13 and 14) affects later high school work (at ages 15 to 18). White youth in Baltimore more often held jobs than did African American youth, even though African Americans…
Urban Teenagers
This article explores how employment affects the likelihood of dropout among high school students in Baltimore, a high-poverty city with a high dropout rate. Among 15-year-olds, those with teen jobs (e.g., lawn mowing, babysitting, etc.) were less than one third as likely to drop out as those who took adult-type jobs (manufacturing or business). This pattern reversed at age 16, however, because, at that age, holding an adult-type job as compared …
Paid Work in Early Adolescence
Descriptive data on paid work performed both by White and African American students in Baltimore were collected as part of a more extensive longitudinal study. More than one-half of the youth worked for pay during the school year at 13 and 14 years of age, and around 70% worked during the summers. Those who started work the earliest were those who had done more chores at home. Patterns of work by these relatively low socioeconomic status (SES) st…
The Gender Gap in Math
Les AA. montrent que les differences entre les deux sexes dans la plupart des disciplines scolaires tend a diminuer mais ils constatent, au niveau de l'enseignement primaire, une difference entre garcons et filles en faveur de ces derniers en ce qui concerne le niveau de connaissance en mathematiques. Ils s'efforcent de comprendre le phenomene et cela a partir d'une enquete menee aupres d'enfants du primaire a Baltimore. Ils montrent que les garc…
Paid Work in Early Adolescence
Descriptive data on paid work performed both by White and African American students in Baltimore were collected as part of a more extensive longitudinal study. More than one-half of the youth worked for pay during the school year at 13 and 14 years of age, and around 70% worked during the summers. Those who started work the earliest were those who had done more chores at home. Patterns of work by these relatively low socioeconomic status (SES) st…
Early Work Histories of Urban Youth
Using a life course framework, we examine Baltimore adolescents' paid work from ages 13 to 18 to describe (1) the start of the transition to adulthood; (2) how work interlaces with schooling; (3) how work is segmented along sociodemographic lines, and (4) how early work (at ages 13 and 14) affects later high school work (at ages 15 to 18). White youth in Baltimore more often held jobs than did African American youth, even though African Americans…
Schools, Achievement, and Inequality
Are there socioeconomic differences in the seasonality of children’s learning over the school year and summer months? The achievement gap across social lines increases during the primary grades, as much research indicates, but descriptive analyses and HLM within-person growth models for a representative panel of Baltimore school children demonstrate that the increase can be traced mainly to the out-of-school environment (i.e., influences situated…
Urban Teenagers
This article explores how employment affects the likelihood of dropout among high school students in Baltimore, a high-poverty city with a high dropout rate. Among 15-year-olds, those with teen jobs (e.g., lawn mowing, babysitting, etc.) were less than one third as likely to drop out as those who took adult-type jobs (manufacturing or business). This pattern reversed at age 16, however, because, at that age, holding an adult-type job as compared …
First Grade and Educational Attainment by Age 22
Studies of the persistence of social stratification rely heavily on students' experience in secondary schools. In this study, outcomes for a randomly selected panel of Baltimore children, followed from age 6 to age 22, demonstrate that first graders' social contexts and personal resources explain educational attainment levels in early adulthood about as well as do similar resources measured in adolescence. Years of schooling and the highest level…
Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap
Prior research has demonstrated that summer learning rooted in family and community influences widens the achievement gap across social lines, while schooling offsets those family and community influences. In this article, we examine the long-term educational consequences of summer learning differences by family socioeconomic level. Using data from the Baltimore Beginning School Study youth panel, we decompose achievement scores at the start of h…
Early Schooling
In trying to understand the origin of gender differences favoring girls in reading skills, analysts have examined mainly the performance of students who are in the same grade, with samples pooled across socioeconomic status (SES). Using a longitudinal sample in Baltimore, where all students in a randomly selected panel are the same age and are followed from the beginning of the first grade, the authors found that the early reading skills of boys …
The Adult Transition of At-Risk Youth
This paper takes a life course perspective on differences in high school exit mode and its consequences for students not going to four-year colleges. Using detailed life history data from the Baltimore Beginning School Study archive, we show that the employment rate for dropouts who later get diplomas is higher than the rate for dropouts who later get GEDs, other things equal. Put another way, after taking into account personal and social assets,…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · School Choice and Performance (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Socioeconomic status (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)