Ermisch, John F and Francesconi, Marco (2001) Family structure and children's achievements. Journal of Population Economics, 14 (2). pp. 249-270. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s001480000028
Ermisch, John F and Francesconi, Marco (2001) Family structure and children's achievements. Journal of Population Economics, 14 (2). pp. 249-270. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s001480000028
Ermisch, John F and Francesconi, Marco (2001) Family structure and children's achievements. Journal of Population Economics, 14 (2). pp. 249-270. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s001480000028
Abstract
In this paper we estimate the relationships between several outcomes in early adulthood (educational attainment, economic inactivity, early childbearing, distress and smoking) and experience of life in a single-parent family during childhood. The analysis is performed using a special sample of young adults, who are selected from the first five waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-95) and can be matched with at least one sibling over the same period. We also perform level (logit) estimation using another sample of young adults from the BHPS. We find that: (i) experience of life in a single-parent family is usually associated with disadvantageous outcomes for young adults; (ii) most of the unfavourable outcomes are linked to an early family disruption, when the child was aged 0-5; and (iii) level estimates, whose causal interpretation relies on stronger assumptions, confirm the previous results and show that, for most outcomes, the adverse family structure effect persists even after controlling for the economic conditions of the family of origin.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | family structure; intergenerational links; siblings estimators |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2012 10:19 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:39 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2565 |