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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach
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In this article, the authors analyzed whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection, using data on 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and sibling-difference estimations.Abstract:
This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and sibling-difference estimations. Outcomes are measured as educational attainment in 1996. Our cross-section analysis show the expected negative and significant relationship, while the relationship is not significant, though precisely estimated, in the siblingdifference analysis. This finding was robust to the sensitivity tests performed and is consistent with selection, rather than causation, being the explanation for the negative relationship.read more
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Family structure and children's educational outcomes: blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions.
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Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden
TL;DR: The authors compared the relationship between childhood family structure, schooling, and earnings in Sweden and the USA and found a negative relationship between living in a non-intact family and child outcomes, and the estimates are remarkably similar in both countries.
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Parental disruption and the labour market performance of children when they reach adulthood
TL;DR: This paper used data from the age 33 wave of the British National Child Development Survey (NCDS) to analyze the effects of a parental disruption on the labour market performance of children when they reach adulthood.
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Single motherhood and (un)equal educational opportunities: Evidence for Germany
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn from the German Socio-economic Panel and found a negative correlation between single mothers and children's educational attainment.
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the relationship between family structure and children's outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States and find that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment.
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Family structure and children's achievements
John Ermisch,Marco Francesconi +1 more
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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India
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Parental disruption and the labour market performance of children when they reach adulthood
TL;DR: This paper used data from the age 33 wave of the British National Child Development Survey (NCDS) to analyze the effects of a parental disruption on the labour market performance of children when they reach adulthood.