Socio-Economic Mobility of Youths: Factors, Obstacles, and Potential Solutions
Abstract
From early childhood to young adulthood, there are several key obstacles to the ability
of a young person to improve his or her socioeconomic status. These include availability
of quality early childhood education, level of peer support during adolescence, secondary
school funding and quality, and skills development and job matching as a young adult.
This article explores the dynamics of these critical obstacles, analyzes initiatives
that are successfully helping young people overcome these obstacles around the world,
and makes policy suggestions to create a society in which young people have strong
opportunities to fulfill their potentials and advance socioeconomically. The article
focuses on socioeconomic mobility of young people specifically in the United States,
though it draws on examples of successful models from all over the globe.
Description
Andrew Leon Hanna completed this work in an independent study course under the supervision
of Dr. Anirudh Krishna in 2013. A condensed version of the work has been accepted
for publication in a journal of youth and adolescent development, and parts of the
work have contributed to Andrew's honors thesis on "The Global Youth Unemployment
Crisis."
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