scholarly journals Unequal Families, Unequal Effects: How Parental Divorce Differentially Impacts Children's Educational Attainment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Brand ◽  
Ravaris Moore ◽  
Xi Song ◽  
Yu Xie
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Family Disruption ◽  
Psychosocial Skills ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Lower Educational Attainment

A substantial literature suggests that family disruption leads to lower educational attainment among children. We focus on how the effects of parental divorce on children’s education differ across families with varying likelihoods of disruption. Using U.S. panel data, with careful attention to the assumptions and methods needed to estimate total and mediating causal effects, we find a significant effect of parental divorce on educational attainment among children whose parents were unlikely to divorce, for whom divorce was thus a relative shock. We find no effect among children whose parents were likely to divorce and for whom divorce was one of many disadvantages, and thus less economically and socially disruptive. We also find that the observed effect of divorce on children’s education is strongly mediated by post-divorce family income. Children’s psychosocial skills also explain a portion of the effect among children with a low propensity for parental divorce, while cognitive skills play no role in explaining the negative association between divorce and children’s education. Our results suggest that family disruption does not uniformly disrupt children’s attainment.

scholarly journals Does Familial Educational Attainment Predict Sleep Quality Trajectories for Older Adults in Mexico?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 594-594
Author(s):  
Margarita Osuna ◽  
Connor Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Quality Sleep ◽  
Aging Study ◽  
Children’S Education

Abstract Researchers have stressed the importance of sleep for healthy aging and longevity. However, there are few population-level studies of sleep quality focusing on older adults in Latin America and Mexico in particular. The objective of this study is to examine the associations between personal and familial educational attainment on sleep quality. We utilized data from the 2001-2015 Mexican Health and Aging Study (N=4,164; MHAS). Our sample consisted of older adults (aged 50+), married with children. We predicted longitudinal reports of restless sleep across four waves of MHAS using mixed-effects logistic regression. We found that lower levels of respondents’ education, their spouses’ education, and their children’s’ education were associated with lower levels of sleep quality. When the measures of education were included in the same model, one’s own education and children’s education remained significantly associated with quality sleep. Our results stress the importance of familial educational attainment for sleep in Mexico.

Parental Incarceration and Children's Educational Attainment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Carolina Arteaga
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
Random Assignment ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Standard Framework

Abstract This paper presents new evidence showing that parental incarceration increases children's education. I collect criminal records for 90,000 low-income parents who have been convicted of a crime in Colombia, and link the educational attainment of their children. I exploit exogenous variation resulting from the random assignment of judges, and extend the standard framework to incorporate both conviction and incarceration decisions. I show that the effect of incarceration for a given conviction threshold can be identified. My results indicate that parental incarceration increases educational attainment by 0.78 years for the children of convicted parents on the margin of incarceration.

scholarly journals Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-405
Author(s):  
Esra Kose ◽  
Elira Kuka ◽  
Na’ama Shenhav
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Investment In Children ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in US suffrage laws, we show that exposure to suffrage during childhood led to large increases in educational attainment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially Blacks and Southern Whites. We also find that suffrage led to higher earnings alongside education gains, although not for Southern Blacks. Using newly digitized data, we show that education increases are primarily explained by suffrage-induced growth in education spending, although early-life health improvements may have also contributed. (JEL H75, I21, I22, J13, J15, J16, N32)

scholarly journals Educational Attainment and Family Background

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arild Aakvik ◽  
Kjell Vaage ◽  
Kjell G. Salvanes
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Explanatory Variable ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Credit Constraints ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Short Term

Abstract This paper analyses the effect of aspects of family background, such as family income and parental education, on the educational attainment of persons born from 1967 to 1972. Family income is measured at different periods of a child’s life to separate long-term versus short-term effects of family income on educational choices.We find that permanent income matters to a certain degree, and that family income when the child is 0-6 years old is an important explanatory variable for educational attainment later in a child’s life. We find that short-term credit constraints have only a small effect on educational attainment. Long-term factors, such as permanent family income and parental education, are much more important for educational attainment than are short-term credit constraints. Public interventions to alleviate the effects of family background should thus also be targeted at a child’s early years, the shaping period for the cognitive and non-cognitive skills important later in life.

scholarly journals Problematika Pendidikan Anak Pasca Perceraian Orangtua

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
Despi Trianti ◽  
Nuzuar Nuzuar ◽  
Siswanto Siswanto ◽  
Idi Warsah ◽  
Endang Endang
Keyword(s):  
Parental Divorce ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Children Education ◽  
Close Family

Children are the mandate from Allah in that children have the rights to live and be loved by parents. Children’s growth and development are very dependent upon how parents educate and guide them. Children are like white paper given the potential by Allah, and such potential must be developed by parents in any condition and situation even though, for instance in a particular case, the parents must get divorce. Departing from this argument, this study aimed to find out a depiction of children's (17 children) education continuity after their parents got divorce in Babakan Baru Village, Bermani Ulu Raya District, Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu. This study used a qualitative approach with key informants referring to parents who got divorce, close family members, child victims of divorce, and community and religious leaders. In addition, the marriage registrars of KUA in Bernani Ulu Raya were involved as the secondary informants. The data were obtained from observations and interviews, and they were analyzed using the approach of Miles et al with the stages encompassing data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusion. This study found the conclusion that the continuity of children's education after parental divorce in Babakan Baru Village was not solely grounded in parental divorce, but it was more dominantly influenced by economic factors and parents' awareness of the importance of children’s education.  

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