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Title: Alternative Estimates of the Effects of Family Structure During Childhood on High School Graduation
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Manski, Charles F. Sandefur, Gary D. McLanahan, Sara S. Powers, Daniel A. |
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Alternative Estimates of the Effects of Family Structure During Childhood on High School Graduation Journal of the American Statistical Association 87,417 (March 1992): 25-37. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2290448 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Statistical Association Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Heterogeneity; High School Completion/Graduates; Parental Influences; Racial Differences A good deal of research in the past few years has found significant relationships between family structure during childhood and various outcomes during the teen and early adult years. There may, however, be unmeasured variables which affect both family structure and teen or early adult outcomes. The apparent effects of family structure may be due to these unmeasured variables, which affect both the likelihood of maintaining an intact marriage and parenting effectiveness. The authors estimate a model that attempts to take this unmeasured heterogeneity into account. Another weakness of past studies is that they make very strong assumptions about the relationship between family structure and early outcomes. Relaxing these assumptions, estimate nonparametric bounds on the magnitude of the relationship between family structure and early outcomes are estimated. |
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Manski, Charles F., Gary D. Sandefur, Sara S. McLanahan and Daniel A. Powers. "Alternative Estimates of the Effects of Family Structure During Childhood on High School Graduation." Journal of the American Statistical Association 87,417 (March 1992): 25-37.
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