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Title: Educational Attainment of Children from Single-Parent Families: Differences by Exposure, Gender and Race
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Krein, Sheila Fitzgerald Beller, Andrea H. |
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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. |
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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.
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