QAC201Z: Applied Data Analysis, Prof. Valerie Nazzaro
Live Poster Session: Zoom Link
Ivan Lopez
Ivan is a Theatre and Dance double major with an IDEAS minor. Ivan is a junior who loves studying scenic design and how bodies interact with the space around them, which is where his interest in dance stemmed from. Ivan hopes to combine both disciplines in his own works as he enters his final year at Wesleyan. During his free time, Ivan enjoys directing two dance teams on campus and working at ResLife and the student-run café, Espwesso, in the basement of Allbritton. (BEST MATCHA ON CAMPUS!)
Abstract: There has been little attention paid to the association between the total number of government resources received as a child and political leaning and participation in adulthood. This research attempts to investigate this association by analyzing responses from over 6,500 adolescents in Wave I of the study within the 1994-2018 U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (ADDHEALTH) and their responses as adults in Wave V. According to multiple logistic regression models, the data suggests a higher number of welfare programs is significantly linked to a lower probability of always voting and a lower likelihood of being partisan. Despite the fact that income confounds the relationship with partisanship, these relationships hold true even after controlling for race and income. These results demonstrate the crucial influence of early welfare experiences on future political engagement and offer viable strategies for reducing the stigmas attached to welfare use in order to increase political engagement in subsequent generations.
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