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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using sibling-difference estimators or two types of instrumental variable estimator, the evidence that family structure affects schooling outcomes is much less conclusive. Although almost all the point estimates indicate that non-intactness has an adverse effect on schooling outcomes, confidence intervals are large and span zero.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1837

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Analysis of Education
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Thema
childhood family structure
lone parenthood
educational success
sibling differences
instrumental variables
treatment effects
Familie
Alleinerziehende
Kinder
Schule
Bildungsverhalten
Vergleich
Deutschland
Bildungsabschluss

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Francesconi, Marco
Jenkins, Stephen P.
Siedler, Thomas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2005

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Francesconi, Marco
  • Jenkins, Stephen P.
  • Siedler, Thomas
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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