African-American Women and Poverty: Can Education Alone Change the Status Quo? FROM THE PUBLISHER
African American Women and Poverty examines why educational investments by African American women, the group in American society that is most susceptible to being poor, have not reduced poverty as expected. The analysis in this study reveals that the ability of human capital investment to alleviate poverty for African American women differs depending on whether one estimates private or social returns. Tables. Charts. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
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Examines issues of education as they concern African American women. Focuses on the question of why investments by these women in education have not reduced poverty amongst the group as expected. The study uses National Longitudinal Surveys of Market Experience data form 1969 and 1988. The author argues that ultimately education is only one of many determinants of poverty, and that the ability of capital investment to alleviate poverty differs depending on whether one estimates private or social returns. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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