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Title: Does Growing Up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt?
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Lang, Kevin Zagorsky, Jay L. |
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Does Growing Up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt? Journal of Human Resources 36,2 (Spring 2001): 253-273. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069659 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Children; Cognitive Ability; Economic Well-Being; Fathers, Absence; Parental Influences; Parents, Single It is widely recognized that children who grow up without a biological parent do worse, on average, than other children. However, because having a single parent is highly correlated with many other socioeconomic disadvantages, the negative outcomes might be caused by something beyond the parent's absence. Econometric tests using a variety of background controls and parental death as an exogenous cause of absence, show little evidence that a parent's presence during childhood affects economic well being in adulthood. The two exceptions are that living without a mother impacts girls' cognitive performance while having a father die lowers sons' chances of marriage. |
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Lang, Kevin and Jay L. Zagorsky. "Does Growing Up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt?" Journal of Human Resources 36,2 (Spring 2001): 253-273.
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