Across all variables, family mobility most strongly predicts school dropouts.

Evidence

The logistic regression carried out earlier and reported in table Al shows that the coefficient for number of moves since grade 5 is 10 times its standard error, the variable with the strongest overall effect of any variable in the equation, including the measures of human and financial capital in the family (socioeconomic status) and the crude measures of family social capital introduced in the earlier analysis. Translating this into an effect on dropping out gives 11.8% as the dropout rate if the family has not moved, 16.7% if it has moved once, and 23.1% if it has — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 179

Categorization

• SHARE: The dropout rates climbing from 11.8% to 23.1% with each move is a striking concrete number for anyone working on residential instability and education.
• CANDY: Mobility effect beating even parental SES as a dropout predictor is a memorable statistic.
• XREF: connects to: Family social capital components combine such that disadvantaged structure nearly quadruples dropout rates. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 174

Related

• Family social capital components combine such that disadvantaged structure nearly quadruples dropout rates. (similarity 0.85)
• Frequent family moves break the social networks that constitute social capital. (similarity 0.83)
• The logistic model treats school mobility and school changes as shifts in social capital. (similarity 0.80)
• Residential mobility varies sharply across school types (similarity 0.79)
• Individual mobility decisions can destroy social capital others depend on involuntarily. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Family social capital components combine such that disadvantaged structure nearly quadruples dropout rates. #expands (0.75) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 174