Understanding Heterogeneity in the Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment in Britain
Do Children from Lower Educational Backgrounds Have Less to Lose
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2236035 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Fabrizio Bernardi (0000-0002-5544-5184, European University Institute), D Boertien (0000-0002-4105-8001, European University Institute, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 32 |
| Número | 6 |
| Páginas | 807-819 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | European Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/esr/jcw036 |
| OpenAlex | W2502971037 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 50 |
| Referencias citadas | 42 |
We use the British Cohort Study 1970 to show that the proportion of children achieving a tertiary education degree is 8 percentage points lower for the offspring of separated parents than for children from intact families. Moreover, the children of highly educated parents experience a two times larger 'separation penalty' than the children of less educated parents. We find a similar pattern of heterogeneity in effects for the likelihood of participation in academic education (A-Levels) beyond school leaving age but not for school grades at age 16. We test three different explanations for heterogeneity in the parental separation penalty: changes in family relations, changes in income, and negative selection into separation based on unobserved characteristics. We address the potential endogeneity of parental separation by including pre-separation observable characteristics, individual fixed effects models, and a placebo test. Our key finding is that changes in family income, but not those in family relations or selection, explain a large part of heterogeneity in the effects of parental separation. Children with more highly educated parents face a larger decline in family income if parents separate and, in addition, declines in family income of equal amounts entail more negative consequences for their educational attainment.
Biology · Cohort · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Endogeneity · Offspring · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Separation (statistics) · Sibling · Sibling rivalry (animals) · Sociology · Statistics · Test (biology) · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology
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