کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971966 932434 2009 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Impact of maternal imprisonment on children's probability of grade retention
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Impact of maternal imprisonment on children's probability of grade retention
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper examines the effect of maternal imprisonment on children's probability of retention using propensity score matching. The sample consists of children attending Chicago Public Schools during years 1991 and 2004 between grade levels kindergarten and eighth grade. These children have mothers who either enter Illinois state prison or Cook county jail during an eight and an half year sampling period. The effect of maternal imprisonment is identified using a difference-in-difference strategy on a sample of children matched by different algorithms. I find that children whose mothers enter prison are less likely to experience grade retention than their matched counterparts at least in the immediate years following the mother's prison entry. These results are robust to different matching schemes as well as to different levels of maternal contact prior to the mother's incarceration.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics - Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 11–23
نویسندگان
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