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Family Structure and Educational Outcomes in England

In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 12

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  • Amira Elasra

    (The department of Economics, University of Warwick)

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationships between family structure and educational outcomes in England. The arguments are that the outcome gap among adolescents could be explained to an extent by the type of family they live with and that living in a nonintact family has adverse impact on these outcomes. The analysis seeks to fill some of the gap in the literature about why nonintact structures of English families could lead to worse educational outcomes. For this, two identified intervening mechanisms in the literature of the family socioeconomic status and parental involvement are tested for whether they could mediate such effect. The main finding of the analysis is that part of the observed educational outcomes is “pure” family structure effect even after controlling for the effects of possible observed compensating or reinforcing family characteristics or allocation decisions.

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  • Amira Elasra, 2017. "Family Structure and Educational Outcomes in England," Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación volume 12, in: Juan Cándido Gómez Gallego & María Concepción Pérez Cárceles & Laura Nieto Torrejón (ed.), Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 12, edition 1, volume 12, chapter 10, pages 191-222, Asociación de Economía de la Educación.
    • Handle: RePEc:aec:ieed12:12-10
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    Keywords

    Educational outcomes; family structure; single mother;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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