This project team will measure the relationship between social-emotional learning competencies in seventh through ninth grades and long-term outcomes (e.g., postsecondary enrollment and wages) among students facing multiple sources of disadvantage in rural Mississippi. The study will draw on data from the LifeSkills survey-based assessment of social-emotional learning competencies collected in Promise Neighborhoods.

Data Sources 

• Data: Survey data (“noncognitive” skills) and administrative data collected within Promise Neighborhoods in grades 7–9, Mississippi Statewide Longitudinal Data System data on baseline academic performance, absenteeism, English II and Algebra I performance, graduation, and postsecondary enrollment and completion
• Mobility Outcomes: Mississippi Unemployment Insurance wages and employment, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) receipt and wages from Mississippi’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS)