Sigle, Wendy 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8450-960X, Lyngstad, Torkild H., Andersen, Patrick Lie and Kravdal, Øystein
(2014)
Proceed with caution? Parents' union dissolution and children's educational achievement.
Journal of Marriage and Family, 76 (1).
pp. 161-174.
ISSN 0022-2445
Abstract
Using high-quality Norwegian register data on 49,879 children from 23,655 families, the authors estimated sibling fixed-effects models to explore whether children who are younger at the time of a parental union dissolution perform less well academically, as measured by their grades at age 16, than their older siblings who have spent more time living with both biological parents. Results from a baseline model suggest a positive age gradient that is consistent with findings in some of the extant family structure literature. Once birth order is taken into account, the gradient reverses. When analyses also control for grade inflation by adding year of birth to the model, only those children who experience a dissolution just prior to receiving their grades appear relatively disadvantaged. The results illustrate the need to specify and interpret sibling fixed-effects model with great care.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 National Council on Family Relations, |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology L Education > L Education (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2014 11:19 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2024 01:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55687 |
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