Does capital at home matter more than capital at school? Social capital effects on academic achievement
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Does capital at home matter more than capital at school? Social capital effects on academic achievement Mikaela J. Dufur a,∗, Toby L. Parcel b, Kelly P. Troutman c a Department of Sociology, 2008 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States b Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Campus Box 8107, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27603, United States c Department of Sociology, 3151 Social Science Plaza, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, United States
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