The Association Between Number of Children, Educational Attainment, and Financial Well-Being Among Hispanic Women

Faculty Sponsor: Robert Kabacoff

Live Poster Session: Zoom Link

Marveya Flor Velásquez

Prospective Government and Hispanic Literature & Cultures major with a minor in East Asian Studies from New Haven, Connecticut and member of the Wesleyan Women’s Varsity Squash team.

Abstract: The goals of the present analysis include (1) establishing the relationship between educational attainment among Hispanic women and childbearing, and (2) whether or not the relationship between educational attainment and childbearing correlates with financial well-being. That is, this study will investigate whether educational attainment among Hispanic women are significant to childbearing and whether this correlation produces high or low levels of financial well-being. Chi-squared tests of significance and an Analysis of Variance (Anova) revealed that there is no significant relationship between these variables but do show some variation among them. A multiple linear regression found that even though there is no significant relationship between these variables there is a relationship between educational attainment, financial well-being, and having children among Hispanic women.