The Effect of Maternal College Education and Maternal Marital Status at a Child’s Birth on Test Scores
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This article examines if a mother's education and social status affect her child's test scores. This work uses the linear regression model to obtain the T-test and F test from over 8,000 experimental participants. To assess if there is a correlation between the mother's history and the child's test scores and if the mother's impact is significant, the White Test for Heteroskedasticity is applied to the data to determine if the variance of the errors in a regression model is constant. Finally, the mother's education and social standing affect the child's test scores.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i24.5397
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