Every Class Is Different: School Cohort Variation and Violence in Early Adulthood

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Abstract

This study examines how variation within schools but between cohorts shapes students’ involvement in violence during early adulthood. Specifically, data from Waves I-III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and school fixed effects regression models are used assess how within-school, grade-level variation in behavioral problems and student sociodemographic factors relate to self-reported violence years after students exit school. Preliminary results indicate that heightened exposure to conflict between students and teachers in one’s high school cohort is associated with increases in one’s involvement in violence during early adulthood. There is little evidence that other cohort-level variables—such as parent education, peer violence, community cohesion, and conflict between students—are associated with early adulthood violence.

Author

• Nicolo P. Pinchak, University of Oxford
  Presenting Author