Kimbro, Rachel TChavez, Sergio2022-09-232022-082022-08-11August 202Fern, Simon E. "Exploring the relationship between maternal nativity, food insecurity, and young children’s experiences at school.." (2022) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113284">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113284</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113284EMBARGO NOTE: This item is embargoed until 2028-08-01Children growing up in food insecure households experience serious challenges in their day-to-day lives, wellbeing, and development which understandably affect them at school. While food insecurity and maternal nativity, and food insecurity and school outcomes have been explored substantially by other scholars – there is a scarcity of work which interacts the three together. Using nationally representative data from the period 2010-2016 for 4,250 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011, with household incomes at or below 400 percent of the federal poverty level, this study explores whether maternal nativity affects the relationship between household food insecurity and children’s academic achievement and teacher-assessed behaviour. This analysis demonstrates a substantial food insecurity gap between households headed by US or foreign-born mothers, and a diversity of relationships between food insecurity and school outcomes. This paper provides evidence for the importance of disaggregating the ‘foreign-born mother’ category to think about the relationship between different places of origin and later trajectories in the United States.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Food securityfood insecuritychildhood food insecurityhousehold food insecurityeducationECLSchild developmentmigrant motherschildren of immigrantsfood insecurity and educationThesis2022-09-23