A quantile analysis of resilience among students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds

An analysis based on the concept of social capital and resilience led to a model for the creation of student human capital. Using this model, we wanted to identify factors that could promote school success for 15 year-old students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, success interpreted as development of their human capital. We studied the results of the Pisa 2000 questionnaires that we gave to the students, and interpreted them based on structural, normative and interactive dimensions generated by the social capital of school and family, and by the student's resilience. We observe positive correlations for structural and interactive variables. All of the normative variables reveal negative correlations. We present these results and elaborate hypotheses to explain them. Finally, we determined the criteria for defining school success as scholastic capital.