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Family structure and children's educational outcomes: Blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions

DK Ginther… - Demography, 2004 - Springer
... children of both parents) and children reared in other family structures (eg, single-parent families
or blended families). ... When controls for other variables are introduced, the relationship between
family structure and children's educational outcomes weakens substantially and ...

Does family structure affect children's educational outcomes?

DK Ginther… - 2003 - nber.org
... An explicit counterfactual clarifies the question, "What is the effect of family structure on
outcomes for children?" ... It is well-known that, on average, children reared in traditional
nuclear families have substantially better educational outcomes ...

Family structure, father involvement, and adolescent behavioral outcomes

MJ Carlson - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... property on purpose, (f) gotten drunk, (g) had to bring their parent(s) to school ... it intrinsically reflects
both the quantity and the quality of time that fathers spend with children. ... followed by bivariate
frequencies/means for father and mother involvement by family structure and for ...

Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition

S McLanahan - Demography, 2004 - Springer
... and McRae 1998), is mixed, with some researchers finding negative effects of family structure
and others ... of college-educated men spend more time with their fathers than do children of non ...
Before 1985, the trends in fathers' involvement for the two educational groups were a ...

Heterogeneity in Two‐Parent Families and Adolescent Well‐Being

S Halpern‐Meekin… - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... To analyze the association between family structure and academic, behavioral, and psychological
outcomes for our four sibling ... Variable Name, Family Type. Shared Children in Simple Families,
Shared Children in Blended Families, Stepchildren in Blended Families, Stepchildren ...

The impact of family structure transitions on youth achievement: Evidence from the children of the NLSY79

A Aughinbaugh, CR Pierret… - Demography, 2005 - Springer
... Alison Aughinbaugh, Charles R. Pierret, and Donna S. Rothstein, US ... Family Structure Transitions
and Youth Achievement 457 ... In Panel A of Table 3, the effects of divorce are presented for the
sample of children who were born to married mothers, and in Panel B, the effects of ...

Family structure and the reproduction of inequalities

S McLanahan… - Annu. Rev. Sociol, 2008 - annualreviews.org
... of exposure to unilateral or no-fault divorce laws in childhood and a range of adult outcomes,
including marital status, fertility, educational attainment, and ... Figure 3 illustrates the major pathways
through which family structure is expected to affect children's well-being. ...

Residential father family type and child well-being: Investment versus selection

SL Hofferth - Demography, 2006 - Springer
... with unmarried parents to do so, but there was no difference in educational levels between ... time
of unrelated persons with this child, such time provides crucial support for children. ... results, but
the coefficients for family structure were more highly significant because of the larger ...

Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden

A Björklund, DK Ginther… - Journal of Population Economics, 2007 - Springer
... This may simply be a reflection of the lower schooling attainment of children from non ... It is only
the coefficient for other family structure that significantly differs between the Sweden and ... smaller
than the NLSY coefficients for single mothers, stepfathers, and other family structures. ...

Does family structure affect children's educational outcomes?

R Pollak… - NBER Working Paper No. w9628, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
... An explicit counterfactual clarifies the question, "What is the effect of family structure on
outcomes for children?" ... It is well-known that, on average, children reared in traditional
nuclear families have substantially better educational outcomes ...

The American family and family economics

S Lundberg… - 2007 - nber.org
... The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views
of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ... size, and family structure. ... will enter old age without
adult children from whom they can expect support (Plotnick, 2006), ...

One or two parents? Half or step siblings? The effect of family structure on young children's achievement

LA Gennetian - Journal of Population Economics, 2005 - Springer
... usually based on the relation- ship between the focus child and her parent(s), ignore the ...
Controlling for income and other unobserved characteristics, family structure when defined using
traditional classifications has little effect on young children's achievement test scores. ...

ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY STRUCTURE AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR: PARENTAL COHABITATION AND BLENDED HOUSEHOLDS*

R Apel… - Criminology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... by remarriage and children in the new marriage (and the responding youth is one of these children
in the ... In table 2, we provide a breakdown of family structure in the NLSY97 ... As expected, the modal
family situation is an intact family, with just over half of the sample (53.1 percent ...

Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany

M Francesconi, SP Jenkins… - Journal of population economics, 2010 - Springer
... We use five different family structure measures, each of which was constructed from the marital ...
15 Thus, an individual would have spent time in a non-intact family if he ... 15Ginther and Pollak
(2004) distinguished children reared in “blendedfamilies—stepchildren and their half ...

Family Structure States and Transitions: Associations With Children's Well‐Being During Middle Childhood

K Magnuson… - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... If the later family structure measures predicted the intercept(s), then this indicates that children
experiencing single ... Thus, modeling this selection reduces potential biases in the association
between family structure experiences and children's subsequent behavior ...

[CITATION] A.(2004) Family Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions

R Pollak - Demography Washington

Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden

A Bjorklund, D Ginther… - Journal of Population …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
... This may simply be a reflection of the lower schooling attainment of children from non-intact
families. ... fixed-effects estimates have the advantage of allowing us to control for unobserved factors
that may be associated with educational outcomes and family structure, they are ...

The living arrangements of children and their educational well-being

JD Teachman - Journal of Family Issues, 2008 - jfi.sagepub.com
... different home in the past year, having moved in with another family in the ... measure of turbulence
across families, defined by various levels of income, structure, welfare receipt ... turbulence and
both engagement in school and the emotional and behavioral adjustment of children. ...

Family Structure Pathways and Academic Disadvantage among Adolescents in Stepfamilies*

KH Tillman - Sociological Inquiry, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... of time that the respondents had lived with their resident parent(s), and whether and ... depiction
of the family living arrangements in which contemporary American children are being ... The
multivariate analyses examine the effects of specific family structure pathways on academic ...

Family structure and children's psychosocial outcomes

Z Wu, F Hou… - Journal of Family Issues, 2008 - jfi.sagepub.com
... Parental nurturance is based on scores from the My Parent(s) and Me Scale, developed by
Lempers, Clark-Lempers, and Simons (1989). This scale includes 6 items that assess parental
nurturance. ... Family Structure and Children's Psychosocial Outcomes 1613 ...

[CITATION] Family Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families

DK Ginter… - Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions, 2004

Parental divorce, sibship size, family resources, and children's academic performance

Y Sun… - Social Science Research, 2009 - Elsevier
... We combined student-reported family structure measure and parent-reported marital status, and ...
Annual family income from all sources in the previous year (1987) was ... of cultural resources, not
only because such resources promote children's educational success (Bourdieu ...

The productivity argument for investing in young children

JJ Heckman… - … Economic Perspectives and …, 2007 - aepp.oxfordjournals.org
... If Levitt's estimate is correct, educational policy is far more effective per dollar spent than
expenditure on police. ... that over the past forty years, the aggregate birth rate has declined, but
in the past few decades relatively more of all American children born are born ... Family Structure. ...

Challenging the Presumption of Diminished Capacity to Parent: Does Divorce Really Change Parenting Practices?*

L Strohschein - Family Relations, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... coefficient for parental divorce represents the effect of a change in family structure on change ...
A comparison of the characteristics of children and their parents in households that ... In terms of
educational attainment, a greater proportion of continuously married parents reported a ...

" Culture" and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: The Prevention Paradox

…, S Mayer - The Future of Children, 2006 - JSTOR
... ents' religious adherence, family structure, and employment and their children's school? ...
dividual and family characteristics that affect children's lives. It is hard to separate the ef? ...
Do Married Parents Improve Children's Schooling and Adult Income? ...

Parental marital disruption, family type, and transfers to disabled elderly parents

LE Pezzin, RA Pollak… - The Journals …, 2008 - psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals. …
... Abstract. ↵ Freedman, VA (1996). Family structure and the risk of nursing home admission. Journal
of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 51B,S61-S69. Medline. ↵ Furstenberg, FF (1987). The new
extended family: The experience of parents and children after remarriage. ...

Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure

AL Wax - Fam. LQ, 2007 - HeinOnline
... A 42. Kristen Harknett & Sara S. McLanahan, Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marriage After
the Birth of a Child, 69 AM. ... See also Donna K. Ginther & Robert A. Pollak, Family Structure and
Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive ...

“Non-traditional” siblings and the academic outcomes of adolescents

KH Tillman - Social Science Research, 2008 - Elsevier
... mothers in cohabiting stepfamilies also hold lower expectations for their children's educational
attainment than do ... Lowered social and financial investments may signal to children a lack of
parental ... Empirical research on the effects of family structure on youth well-being focuses ...

When Unwed Mothers Marry

DR Graefe… - Journal of Family Issues, 2007 - jfi.sagepub.com
... history or by women's educational attainments for coresident partners, more generally ... It is clear
that childhood in these families will be marked by family disruption and ... The full implications for
children's economic and emotional well-being are only now being documented (Lichter ...

Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school

MJ Rosenfeld - Demography, 2010 - Springer
... primary school career through Grade 8, are likely to have been undertaken within the family
structure reported to ... corresponding fi gures for children of lesbian mothers are 18% and 42.0%. ...
incomes were roughly half as high as the household incomes of the first four family types. ...

The impact of parents' overseas employment on educational outcomes of Filipino children

MJB Arguillas… - International Migration Review, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... are observed according to migration status in college matriculation only; higher percentages
attend some college in migrant family households than in ... Table 4. Summary Statistics for
Educational Attainment of Children 19–21 Years Old, by Gender, by Household Structure. ...

The role of migration and single motherhood in upper secondary education in Mexico

MJ Creighton, H Park… - … of Marriage and Family, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... Number of Coresident sibling(s). ... States received some transfer from outside the household,
compared to between 5.3% and 9% for all other types of family structure. The vast majority of
children in single-mother households (77.8%) with a father in the United States are found in ...

Evidence That the Presence of a Half‐Sibling Negatively Impacts a Child's Personal Development

CW Strow… - American Journal of Economics and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... household environment (N it ), his parents' income (Y t−1 ), his parents' educational training
(E t ... While Ginther and Pollak (2004) also find that biological children in blended families perform
more ... In fact, the common factor related to family structure appears to be the existence of ...

[PDF] Is intergenerational earnings mobility affected by divorce?

A Fertig - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Working …, 2003 - studio-14.info
... Astone, N., & McLanahan, S. (1994). Family structure, residential mobility, and school dropout:
A research note. ... Trends in cohabitation and implications for children's family contexts in the united
states. ... Redefining single-parent families: Cohabitation and changing family reality. ...

[PDF] Academic success begins at home: How children can succeed in school

C Kim - Backgrounder, 2008 - learning-4-life.com
... 28. Nan Marie Astone and Sara S. McLanahan, “Family Structure, Parental Practices and High
School Completion,” American ... Donna K. Ginther and Robert A. Pollak, “Family Structure and
Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive ...

Marriage and Child Well‐Being: Research and Policy Perspectives

SL Brown - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... Typically, measures of family structure capture a child's relationship to resident biological parents
or parent figures and ignore the presence of other family members. ... Shared children in blended
families, as Halpern-Meekin and Tach (2008) termed them, comprise between 6 ...

A typology of kinship foster families: Latent class and exploratory analyses of kinship family structure and household composition

A Zinn - Children and Youth Services Review, 2010 - Elsevier
... The respective relationships between family structure, household composition, and child outcomes
are the subjects of a large research literature ... Raftery, 1999), children in married couple families
have been found to have better outcomes than children in other family types (eg ...

Coresident sibling composition and the academic ability, expectations, and performance of youth

KH Tillman - Sociological Perspectives, 2008 - JSTOR
... parent(s) care about them, people in their family understand them, they want ... the kinds of family
living environments in which contemporary American children are being ... Previous Family Change
and Current Family Structure Biological parents divorced/ separated 0.22 0.17 0.48 ...

Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind

FM Antman - University of Colorado at Boulder Department of …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
... Under the assumption that children whose parents migrate after the child has turned 20 are
akin to having a parent who ... 2004. oFamily Structure and Childrenns ... Giorguli Saucedo, Silvia
E. 2006. oSchool Dropout Rates, Adolescent Labor and Family ...

Male worklessness and the rise of lone parenthood in Great Britain

R Rowthorn… - Cambridge journal of regions, …, 2008 - cjres.oxfordjournals.org
... standards, and this is the background against which employment change would impact on family
structure. ... and more than one-tenth of all families with dependent children in these ... have an indirect
influence on lone parenthood through its effect on educational achievement and ...

Is marriage always good for children? Evidence from families affected by incarceration

K Finlay… - 2008 - nber.org
... Bitler et al. (2006) shows that this is a Page 19. 17 as residing in group quarters (institutional
or otherwise) because it is impossible to determine their family structure. We are primarily
interested in decisions of biological mothers, so we drop children who are ...

[PDF] The consequences of multi-partnered fertility for parental involvement and relationships

MJ Carlson… - Working Papers, 2007 - msk.socionet.ru
... a boy and variables for each parent's nativity, family structure at age 15, self-reported health and ...
Second, in order to evaluate whether the association between MPF and family ... factors correlated
with entering the circumstance of having children by more than one partner. ...

[BOOK] How unilateral divorce affects children

J Cáceres-Delpiano… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
... under nontraditional family structure. Empirical evidence has long shown that children of ... poverty
line and zero otherwise and the third variable is the log of family income. ... variable is useful as
a measure of parents' investment on children's human capital. The ...

Family contexts and schooling disruption among orphans in post-genocide Rwanda

KJA Thomas - Population Research and Policy Review, 2010 - Springer
... A striking feature of these results is that family structure has a stronger association with the
schooling of paternal orphans relative to other children. ... Family Contexts and Schooling Disruption
829 123 Page 12. Table ... disparities in schooling amo ng children in Rwanda Models ...

[PDF] Marital Disruption, Step Children, and Transfers to the Elderly

LE Pezzin, RA Pollak… - REVUE SUISSE D ECONOMIE ET DE …, 2006 - zew.de
... McLanahan, S. and G. Sandefur. 1994. Growing Up with a Single Parent. ... 1995. “The Divorce
Process and Young Children's Well-being: Page 23. 22 ... 2000. “Family Structure and Younth's
Outcomes: Which Correlations Are Causal?” Journal of Human Resources 34(3): 524-549. ...

[PDF] Does Marriage Really Matter? Investments in Prenatal Care and Birth Outcomes

A Jacknowitz… - Department of Economics Working Papers, 2008 - williams.edu
... effect of marriage varies significantly by the mother's educational attainment and by her race
and ethnicity. ... relationship between family structure and child outcomes. ... theories predict that
children in single-parent families will receive fewer resources (social, ...

The impact of biological preferences on parental investments in children and step-children

N Akashi-Ronquest - Review of Economics of the Household, 2009 - Springer
... Similarly, Hill et al. (2001) compared the educational attainment and ... Fig. 4 Family structure
composition trend among the mothers in the NLSY79, 1986–2004. ... Table 1 Descriptive statistics
of children's HOME percentile scores Mean HOME inventory cognitive percentile score ...

The intergenerational effects of paternal migration on schooling and work: What can we learn from children's time allocations?

FM Antman - Journal of Development Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
... the following equation:(1)Si,t=βMigrantDadUSi,t+γ′Xi,t+εi,t,where the dependent variable, S
i, t ... Sample of children whose fathers' US migration status changed over course of panel. ... arise
for reasons other than having a migrant parent in the US For instance, a family may have ...

The American family in black and white: A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality

JJ Heckman - 2011 - nber.org
... commonly understood way to improve educational outcomes. ... public policy, determined the success
of children in schools as measured by their performance on achievement tests. ... American public
policy. Yet, their message is clear. Family matters, American families are in ...

Biological versus foster children education: the old-age support motive as a catch-up determinant? Some evidence from Indonesia

K Marazyan - 2008 - hal-paris1.archives-ouvertes.fr
... lution and Human Behavior, 22, 269-89 Case A, Lin I-Fen, McLanahan S (2000), How Hungry
Is the Selfish Gene?, Economic Journal, ... press of Glenco, 1961 Ginther and Pollak (2004),
Family structure and children's educational outcomes: blended ...

Family Structure and Children's Mental Health in Western Countries

R Bisceglia, C Cheung, E Swinkin… - … Awareness of Child …, 2010 - books.google.com
... Demuth, S., & Brown, SL (2004). Family structure, family processes, and adoles- cent delinquency:
The significance of parental absence versus parental gender. ... Relation- ship between foster parent
disciplinary approaches and aggression in a sample of young foster children. ...

Demographic transitions and children's resources: Bonus or divergence

PM Eloundou-Enyegue… - Demographic Research, 2007 - books.google.com
... Birdsall, N., A. Kelly and S. Sinding (eds.) 2001. ... Ginther, DK and RA Pollack. 2004.“Family
Structure and Children's Educational Out- comes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and
Descriptive Regressions.” Demogra- phy 41 (4): 671-696. Galor, O., and DN Weil. ...

Reconsidering the association between stepfather families and adolescent well-being

MM SWEENEY, H WANG… - Marriage and family: …, 2009 - books.google.com
... of the char- acteristics of the adolescent's biological mother, including her educational attainment,
whether ... families should be associated with advantage or disadvantage for children, relative to ...
suggest that the nature of the association between family structure and adolescent ...

[PDF] Family Structure Changes and Children's Health, Behavior, and Educational Outcomes

AW Rasmussen - Manuscript, 2009 - eale.nl
... parents (the parents living in the household) is included in the analysis, as well as information
on the child, siblings, childls age at the time of the shock(s), etc ... But first it can be seen in Figure
3 that only about 33% of children with three or more family structure changes enrol ...

[PDF] Siblings and Soldiers: Family Background and Military Service in the All-Volunteer Era

E Rose - 2006 - emlab.berkeley.edu
... Regulations prohibit individuals with more than two dependents from enlisting, yet the pay
structure encourages marriage and parenthood. ... well-being varies with family characteristics. ...
simultaneously. This model also predicts that children from larger families will receive fewer ...

The long‐term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low‐income parents

AC Huston, AE Gupta, JT Walker… - Journal of Policy …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... val- ues to build interdependence among imputed values and exploit the correlational structure
among covariates ... adjust for the fact that the observations for children within the same family are
not ... All of the analyses included the entire group of children in New Hope families and ...

[PDF] What more than parental income, education and occupation? An exploration of what Swedish siblings get from their parents

A Björklund, L Lindahl… - … BE Journal of Economic Analysis & …, 2010 - umass.edu
... in this particular dataset, we cannot distinguish half-siblings and adopted children from full ... missing
as a separate stratum.23 Our second category of “exploratory” variables, family structure, includes
the ... Table 1 gives us some feel for just how selective the Family Study sample ...

Association of birth outcomes and maternal, school, and neighborhood characteristics with subsequent numeracy achievement

E Malacova, J Li, E Blair, H Leonard… - American journal of …, 2008 - Oxford Univ Press
... 12.↵: Kantarevic J,; Mechoulan S. . Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor, 2005. ... Ginther
DK,; Pollak RA. . Family structure and children's educational outcomes: blended families, stylized
facts, and descriptive regressions. Demography 2004;41:671-96. ...

[PDF] Today's New Family: What is it doing to our children's educational attainment?

M Dutka - economics.uakron.edu
... 22 April 2005. <http://familycenter.byu.edu/ columns.aspx?id=3>. Becker, Gary S. A Treatise on
the Family. ...Family Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized
Facts, and Descriptive Regressions.” Demography 41-4 (2004), 671-696. ...

The Role of Intact Family Childhood on Women's Earnings Capacity: Implications for Evidence-Based Practices

RK Caputo… - Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
... [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®], [CSA] View all references; McLanahan & Sandefur,
199419. McLanahan, S. and Sandefur, G. 1994. ... Family structure and children's educational
outcomes: Blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions.. ...

How do we capture 15 years of complex and meaningful data about young people's lives?

JL Sligo, J Buxton, S McComb… - Kotuitui: New Zealand …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... Children and Society , 16: 260–272. [CrossRef], [CSA] View all references). ... 58 View all references)
has identified 'more detailed information on family structure' as a key need and identified the
importance of conceptualizing family by measuring a range of family types. ...

Family structure and child outcomes: a high definition, wide angle “snapshot”

KS Conway… - Review of Economics of the Household, 2010 - Springer
... two, one or neither biological/adoptive (henceforth abbreviated as 'bio') parent(s).4 Within ... number
of children in the household under age 6, number of children between age ... Comparing these
differences to the estimated family structure coefficients shows how the observed 'gap ...

[PDF] Family Structure and Adolescent Educational Outcomes: Boundary Ambiguity, Race, and the Significance of Marriage in Stepfather Families

MM Sweeney - 2009 - xteam.brookings.edu
... 5 Or responses of “s/he takes me to school” or “s/she brings me home from school” in the case
of the two ... by children (Raley & Wildsmith, 2004), I consider both marriages and “marriage-like ...
sample, and also estimated separately using mother and child reports of family structure. ...

[BOOK] Sibling and birth-order effects on time-preferences and real-life decisions

E Lampi, K Nordblom - 2009 - economics.gu.se
... 0.197 0.398 Step/half sibling(s) =1 if respondent grew up with half-siblings 0.100 0.300 ... 14
Cáceres-Delpiano (2006) finds that increased family size reduces investments in children, and
Price (2008) finds that first-borns spend more quality time with their parents than ...

[PDF] Family structure and childrens educational outcomes

C Traini - unitn.it
... Page 12. Is two double than one? Family structure and childrens educational outcomes 12
Ginther, D and Pollak, R. 2004 Family structure and children's educational out-comes: Blended
families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions, Demography, 41 (4), 671-696. ...

Explaining Differences in Education between Foster Children and Biological Children: a Sibling Rivalry Approach. Some Evidence from Indonesia

K Marazyan - 2008 - hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
... lution and Human Behavior, 22, 269-89 Case A, Lin I-Fen, McLanahan S (2000), How Hungry
Is the Selfish Gene?, Economic Journal, ... press of Glenco, 1961 Ginther and Pollak (2004),
Family structure and children's educational outcomes: blended ...

[PDF] VOLUME 16, ARTICLE 7, PAGES 195-218 PUBLISHED 08 MARCH 2007

PM Eloundou-Enyegue… - demographic-research.org
... Xjt = C/[(βSjt S ) ∗ (βTj T )]. [2a] ... An analysis from children's perspective shows similar, but less
dramatic, changes in family structure. The percentage of children born to rural married mothers
decreased from about 59 to 55 percent, while the percentage born to urban unmarried ...

[CITATION] Bitler, Marianne P., Jonah B. Gelbach, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Madeline

J Brooks-Gunn, SL Brown, CR Browning… - Demography

Effects of a Sibship Extension to Foster Children on Children's School Enrolment: A Sibling Rivalry Analysis for Indonesia

K Marazyan - The Journal of Development Studies, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... its motivation and focus, leading it to perform worse at school than a child living in its biological
home (Case et al., 19997. Case, A., Lin, IF and McLanahan, S. 1999. ... Family structure and
children's educational outcomes: blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive ...

[PDF] Multiple Partner Fertility and Children's Educational and Earnings Outcomes

DK Ginther, RA Pollak… - 2011 - eale.nl
... Ginther, Donna K. and Robert A. Pollak. 2004. "Family Structure and Children's Educational
Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions," Demography, Vol.
41, No. ... Manski, C., GD Sandefur, S. McLanahan, and D. Powers. 1992. ...

Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany PDF Logo

M Francesconi, SP Jenkins… - econstor.eu
... The major types of family structure also differ by sample. ... About 50 percent of family disruptions
in the West German sample, ... 15 For children born outside of a partnership before 1983 and for
the mother's marital histories prior to 1983, we cannot know exactly whether the mother ...

[PDF] Family environment affects parental involvement in homework during adolescence

T Mora - alde.es
... 23(3), 1201-1231. Page 18. Ginther, DK and Pollak, RA (2004) Family structure and
children's educational outcomes: blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive
regressions, Demography, 41(4), 671-696. Guryan, J., Hurst ...

[PDF] Multiple Partner Fertility and Children's Educational and Earnings Outcomes in Sweden

DK Ginther, RA Pollak… - 2010 - sole-jole.org
... Ginther, Donna K. and Robert A. Pollak. 2004. "Family Structure and Children's Educational
Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions," Demography, Vol.
41, No. ... Manski, C., GD Sandefur, S. McLanahan, and D. Powers. 1992. ...

[HTML] Journal Issue: Opportunity in America Volume 16 Number 2 Fall 2006

…, S Mayer - Journal Issue: Opportunity in America …, 2006 - futureofchildren.org
... been observed for MTO to date; see, for example, the summary in Leonard S. Rubinowitz and ...
the literature draws from a review by Donna Ginther and Robert Pollak, “Family Structure and
Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive ...

[PDF] Marco Francesconi Stephen P. Jenkins

T Siedler - 2006 - diw.de
... The major types of family structure also differ by sample. ... About 50 percent of family disruptions
in the West German sample, ... 15 For children born outside of a partnership before 1983 and for
the mother's marital histories prior to 1983, we cannot know exactly whether the mother ...

[PDF] Children= s Coresidence with Half Siblings

RM Kreider… - Children, 2010 - census.gov
... of family structure on young children=s achievement,@ Journal of Population Economics,
18:415-436. Ginther, Donna K. and Robert A. Pollak. 2004. AFamily Structure and Children=s
Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions,@ ...

Family structure and the reproduction of inequality: Parents' contribution to children's college costs

JC Henretta, DA Wolf, MF Van Voorhis… - Social Science Research, 2012 - Elsevier
... The household marital and parental structure is captured by the relationship of each child to each ...
a family are biological children of one partner and stepchildren of the other, the family is not ... 14.2%
of children are in blended families, 60.3% are not in blended families, and 25.5 ...

[BOOK] The usefulness of social capital theory to understand academic improvement in young children: The impact of family structure

M Shriner - 2008 - books.google.com
... mobility constitutes a potential action that will be destructive of the structure itself—and thus ...
Consequently, the damaging effect of a family's low socioeconomic status on young children's ...
education) has proven to be a robust predictor of young children's academic achievement ...

Orphans at risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence on educational and health outcomes

K Coneus… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
... JEL Classification: I12, I21, J24 Keywords: orphans, family structure, human capital, sub-Saharan
Africa, fixed-effects ... capital. An additional feature of our work is that we distinguish between
different family structures. ... Compared to children whose parents are ...

Family Structure and Adolescent Physical Health, Behavior, and Emotional Well-Being

CE Langton… - Social Service Review, 2011 - JSTOR
... Wall: 5 years. JSTOR Discipline(s): Public Policy & Administration. JSTOR Collection(s): Arts
& ... health, and psychological distress, as well as in the number of children in the ... of the adolescent's
life spent with each parent and in the number of family structure transitions experienced ...

Understanding how family contextual factors affect adolescent outcomes: an examination of an African American sample

SR Roberts - 2011 - soar.wichita.edu
... social well-being and long-term consequences for children. They reported that single mothers
over the last few decades have continued to emerge as a major family structure (McLanahan
& ... The impact of parent(s') level of education on adolescent development may not be as ...

THE EFFECT OF DIVORCE ON PARENT–CHILD CONTACTS

M Albertini… - European Societies, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... 200439. Tomassini, C., Kalogirou, S., Grundy, E., Fokkema, T., Martikainen, P., van Groenou,
MIB and Karisto, A. 2004. ... 'Family structure and children's educational outcomes: Blended families,
stylized facts, and descriptive regressions'. Demography , 41: 671–96. ...

[PDF] PARENTING IN VAIN?: STEPFATHER INFLUENCES ON EARLY TRANSITIONS TO PARENTHOOD

R Dunifon, JH Carmalt… - harrisschool.uchicago.edu
... the household age 6 – 17, and number of children in the household under age 6), and a number ...
Once a youth experienced the event, s/he was no longer included in the risk set. ... 20 including
parenting style and family structure, we utilize only the 1997 round 1. This is because ...

[PDF] Stage-Specific Family Structure Models: Implicit Parameter Restrictions and Bayesian Model Comparison with an Application to Prosocial Behavior

M Ottoni-Wilhelm… - 2010 - resources.oncourse.iu.edu
... that we do not systematically exclude children with turbulent histories. Table 1 column 2
contains the fractions of young adults who experienced the 20 family structure histories
that fit the “birth-mother throughout” and “no more than two changes” ...

Kinship foster family type and placement discharge outcomes

A Zinn - Children and Youth Services Review, 2011 - Elsevier
... The respective relationships among family structure, household composition, and child outcomes
are the subjects of a large research literature ... & Raftery, 1999), children in married couple families
have been found to have better outcomes than children in other family types (eg ...

Child well-being in Flanders: A multidimensional account

J Ghysels… - Social indicators research, 2008 - Springer
... 291 123 Page 10. way we do not differentiate the reconstituted families from the traditional nuclear
families. Ginther and Pollak did make this difference and their results show that the educational
outcomes of the children from a reconstituted family (stepchildren as well as ...

[PDF] Do Parental Divorce and Displacement Matter?

Y Chen… - 2011 - nthu.hccg.org.tw
... 2004. “Family Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts,
and Descriptive Regres- ... 1995. “The Determinants of Children's Attainment: A ... Really Hurt,” The
Journal of Human Resources, 36(2):253-273. [15] McLanahan, S and G. Sandefur. ...

Community Parenting

L Kessler - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
... 33. See JASON FIELDS, US DEP'T OF COMMERCE, AMERICA'S FAMILIES AND LIVING ... 1909);
Antonio McDaniel, Historical Racial Differences in Living Arrangements of Children, 19 J ... 10, 11
(1974); Niara Sudarkasa, African and Afro-American Family Structure: A Comparison ...

Happiness Among Adolescent Students in Thailand: Family and Non-Family Factors

RS Gray, A Chamratrithirong… - Social Indicators …, 2011 - Springer
... structures (11.3%) were living with other relative(s) or/and non-rela- tive(s) (9.9%) or ... The finding
that a large number of children in parent- absent families lived with grandparents was ... According
to Model 1, all types of family structure, except for living with unmarried father and ...

Women's Earnings Before and after Marital Dissolution: Evidence from Longitudinal Earnings Records Matched to Survey Data

CR Tamborini, HM Iams… - … of Family and Economic Issues, 2011 - Springer
... we measured women's pre-dissolution earnings at T - 1, age and educational attainment at T ...
an ex-spouse's earnings are likely to be associated with the family's overall economic ... The share
with children prior to marital dissolution constituted roughly two-thirds of both samples. ...

What more than parental income? An exploration of what swedish siblings get from their parents

A Bjorklund, L Lindahl… - IZA Discussion Paper No. …, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
... We have, however, identified a set of questions that are somewhat related to Dohmen et al.'s
(2006) risk ... Our second category of “exploratory” variables, family structure, includes the mother's
age at the birth of her first child and the total number of children in the family (number of ...

[DOC] “Dual Daddies: Low-Income Urban Non-Residential Biological Fathering and Residential Social Fathering” Monika J. Ulrich Department of Sociology …

MJ Ulrich - u.arizona.edu
... How often do you see the child now? -- What does the child call you when s/he talks to you? ...
2004. "Family Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized
Facts, and Descriptive Regressions." Demography 41(4):671-696. ...

Family Types, Direct Money Transfers from Parents, and School Enrollment among Youth

H Ono - Marriage & family review, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... View all references; Hamilton, Cheng, & Powell, 200732. Hamilton , L., Cheng , S., & Powell ,
B. (2007). ... Ginther , DK , & Pollak , RA ( 2004 ). Family structure and children's educational
outcomes: Blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions . ...

Disentangling the relationships between maternal smoking during pregnancy and co-occurring risk factors

JM Ellingson, ME Rickert… - Psychological …, 2011 - Cambridge Univ Press
... Birth Register and the Multi-Generation Register to match each mother with her children and
pregnancy ... maternal family were identified and retained for subsequent steps; that is, each family
consisted of ... Mothers' average age at the end of follow-up (2009) was 44.02 (S.D.=8.60 ...

Single Parenthood and Child Well-Being

R DUNIFON - … and family: perspectives and complexities, 2009 - books.google.com
... 3: 275–301. Gibson-Davis, C., K. Edin, and S. McLanahan. 2005. ... Ginther, D., and R. Pollak.
2004. Family structure and children's educational out- comes: Blended families, stylized
facts and descriptive regressions. Demography 41, no. 4: 671–696. ...

Am I rich enough to do well in math? Math test scores and socio-economic status

B Southworth - 2006 - soar.wichita.edu
... test scores the student has. School structure contextualizes the demands placed upon the student
and affects how the student meets these demands. ... 23% vs. 14%), family size (2.65 vs. 2.32 vs.
2.00), the cultural ... 6.83 vs. 7.76), parental discussion with their children (1.68 vs. ...

Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the 'Left‐behind'Generation in Albania

GC Giannelli… - Labour, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... is a dummy for the child who lives in a household that participates in a means-tested family
allowances programme ... This choice has been dictated by the actual structure of the data ... The
observed lifetime corresponds to the time that the children spend in school (spell), and death ...

[PDF] Family Structure and Income During Childhood and Subsequent Prosocial Behavior in Young Adulthood

R Bandy… - 2007 - uncg.edu
... contact effort began), our treatment of missing years in a child's family structure history (Hill et ...
exclude children with any missing years), and our treatment of the last years of childhood (our
last year is age 16; Hill et al.'s last year is age 15 for the construction of histories, but they ...

The evolution of family complexity from the perspective of nonmarital children

M Cancian, DR Meyer… - Demography, 2011 - Springer
... the characteristics of parents involved in different family forms, rather than being the consequence
of the family structure per se. ... The Evolution of Family Complexity ... We then create measures
reflecting the dynamics of children's siblingship (no sibling, or full or half-sibling[s] from ...

An examination of child well-being in stable single-parent and married families

CK Dush - Marriage and family: Perspectives and complexities, 2009 - books.google.com
... I begin the analyses by run- ning a series of regressions where the outcomes include the HOME,
BPI, and the PIAT math and reading skills subscales separately by ... RESULTS Descriptive Statistics
I first begin by describing the family structure experiences of all children in the ...

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