Daddies, Devotion, & Dollars: Hoe Do They Matter for Youth

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Daddies, Devotion, & Dollars: Hoe Do They Matter for Youth

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Painter, G.
Levine, D.I.

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David Levine

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Growing up in a family that lacks a biological father is correlated with a number of poor outcomes for youths. This study uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 to examine the extent to which differences in income or in parental involvement can explain the effects of family structure on youth outcomes. We find that measurement error in income from single-parent homes affects the results in a large way because of the variability in income earned over a youth's teen years. Overall, we find that both lower income and lower parental involvement explain most of the disadvantages of youth in single-parent homes, but neither explains the disadvantages of families with stepfathers.

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Paper provided by California Berkeley - Institute of Industrial Relations in its series Papers with number 73.

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Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: FAMILY ; INCOME ; YOUTH;

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- Gary Painter & David Levine, 1999. "Daddies, Devotion, & Dollars: How Do They Matter for Youth?," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series 1009, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]

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Gary Painter & David Levine, 1999. "Family Structure and Youths' Outcomes: Which Correlations are Causal?," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series 1001, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
Zimmerman, David J, 1992. "Regression toward Mediocrity in Economic Stature," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 82(3), pages 409-29, June.
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Solon, Gary, 1992. "Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 82(3), pages 393-408, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
David Levine & Gary Painter, 1998. "The NELS Curve: Replicating The Bell Curve," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series 1005, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
Sanders Korenman & Christopher Winship, 1995. "A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve," NBER Working Papers 5230, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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