کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
955830 1476132 2014 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Family structure and the economic wellbeing of children in youth and adulthood
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
ساختار خانواده و رفاه اقتصادی کودکان در جوانان و بزرگسالی
کلمات کلیدی
ساختار خانواده، رفاه اقتصادی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی اجتماعی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Living with a single parent is associated with economic wellbeing during childhood.
• Living with a single parent is associated with the child’s income as an adult.
• Children’s economic wellbeing in adulthood is related to their childhood wellbeing.

An extensive literature on the relationship between family structure and children’s outcomes consistently shows that living with a single parent is associated with negative outcomes. Few US studies, however, examine how a child’s family structure affects outcomes for the child once he/she reaches adulthood. We directly examine, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, whether family structure during childhood is related to the child’s economic wellbeing both during childhood as well as during adulthood. We find that living with a single parent is associated with the level of family resources available during childhood. This finding persists even when we remove time invariant factors within families. We also show that family structure is related to the child’s education, marital status, and adult family income. Once we control for the child’s demography and economic wellbeing in childhood, however, the associations into adulthood become trivial in size and statistically insignificant, suggesting that the relationship between family structure and children’s long-term, economic outcomes is due in large part to the relationship between family structure and economic wellbeing in childhood.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Social Science Research - Volume 43, January 2014, Pages 30–44
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