%0 Journal Article
%T Children¡¯s Savings Accounts and Rural Children¡¯s College Expectations: The Case of Kickstart Newaygo County
%A William Elliott
%A Haotian Zheng
%A Megan O¡¯Brien
%A Taewhan Choi
%J Sociology Mind
%P 43-61
%@ 2160-0848
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/sm.2023.131003
%X Young children¡¯s educational expectations for themselves, conceptualized as
a </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">college-bound identity</span></i></span><i><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">(CBI),</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">is theorized
as an important and, fortunately, malleable self-concept predictive of educational
attainment. Children¡¯s Savings Accounts (CSAs) are emerging as an important intervention
for shaping these expectations but have remained understudied among rural populations.
This study utilizes survey data from a measure of CBI collected from N = 161 rural
second graders and academic performance perceptions survey data from their parents.
Findings support better performance of a global second-order factor describing CBI
compared to a single-item measure of child educational expectations. Participation
in the CSA is associated with greater levels of CBI and</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">CBI was found to be positively associated with parent
perceptions of child academic performance.</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">These findings are among the first that examine </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">CBI in young children in a rural context. Further
research is needed to un</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">derstand the causal sequence of these associations
and how the dynamic between CSA programming and CBI manifests across age groups.
%K Children¡¯s Savings Accounts (CSAs)
%K Identity-Based Motivation
%K Rural
%K Children
%K Educational Expectations
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=122662