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Author: Beller, Andrea H.
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Gray, Jeffrey S.
Beller, Andrea H.
Graham, John W.
Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men
Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Child Support; Childhood Residence; Children, Home Environment; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Labor Market Outcomes; Modeling, Probit; Parents, Single; Racial Differences

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

An alarming trend among families in the U.S. is the increase in the percentage of children living with only one parent, usually their mother. In this paper, we investigate empirically the direct effect of the absence of at least one parent from the household during childhood on the labor market outcomes--earnings and employment--of young black and white men, paying particular attention to the effect of child support payments. Employing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) for 1990 and 1994, we apply OLS estimation to the natural logarithm of earnings and probit to the probability of being in the labor force. Preliminary findings indicate that living in a non-intact family as a child has a direct negative effect on the wages of young men, especially for whites.
Bibliography Citation
Gray, Jeffrey S., Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham. "Childhood Family Structure, Child Support, and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997.
2. Krein, Sheila Fitzgerald
Beller, Andrea H.
Educational Attainment of Children from Single-Parent Families: Differences by Exposure, Gender and Race
Demography 25,2 (May 1988): 221-234.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/r7293w7873823862/
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Gender Differences; Human Capital; Pairs (also see Siblings); Parents, Single; Schooling

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper examines the effect of living in a single-parent family on the educational attainment of young men and women. According to household production theory, the reduction in parental resources for human capital investment in children living in a single-parent family should lower their educational attainment. Using matched mother-daughter and mother-son samples from the National Longitudinal Surveys, precise measures of whether, at what age, and for how long a child lived in a single-parent family are constructed. Empirical findings show that the negative effect of living in a single-parent family: (1) increases with the number of years spent in this type of family; (2) is greatest during the preschool years; and (3) is larger for boys than for girls.
Bibliography Citation
Krein, Sheila Fitzgerald and Andrea H. Beller. "Educational Attainment of Children from Single-Parent Families: Differences by Exposure, Gender and Race." Demography 25,2 (May 1988): 221-234.