Educational Attainment in Blended Families / Anne Case, I-Fen Lin, Sara McLanahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Case, Anne.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Lin, I-Fen.

McLanahan, Sara.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7874.

NBER working paper series no. w7874

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000.

Summary:

In this paper we compare the educational attainment of birth and non-birth children of women in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education on average than do the birth children of the same women. Controlling for the women's fixed effects, the non-birth children of a woman receive on average one year less schooling than do her birth children, with the educational break occurring at the time children finish high school and begin college.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2000.