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Author: Ono, Hiromi
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Ono, Hiromi |
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Family Types, Direct Money Transfers from Parents, and School Enrollment among Youth Marriage and Family Review 47,1 (January 2011): 45-72. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01494929.2011.558467 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Education Indicators; Income; Parental Investments; Stepfamilies Intrafamily resource transfers have not been studied extensively as a process that may help reduce the well-being disadvantage of stepchildren in parental remarriages relative to biological children in parental first marriages. The process is examined here by analyzing the link between direct parental money transfers and academic outcomes, as measured by enrollment. I develop and test two alternative hypotheses pertaining to a part of this link, which distinctly applies to children of remarried stepfamilies-the component not shared with children in intact families. An adaptive strategy hypothesis posits a well-being enhancing distinct component, operationalized as a positive interaction effect between measures of parental transfers X stepchildren in parental remarriages. A compromised use hypothesis posits a well-being compromising one, implying a negative interaction effect. Two sets of results from analyzing data on 18- to 21-year-olds over multiple years (Nyouth-age = 5,736, Nperson = 3,615) in the first five waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 support the adaptive strategy hypothesis: (1) the interaction effect (income received from parents X being a stepchild in a parental remarriage) has a positive sign, and (2) this interaction effect is consistently positive, whether the youth is at risk of attending high school or college, even when the direction of the shared component of the link, as measured by the main effect of income from parents, varies by the level of schooling. The results suggest the presence of a robust well-being enhancing money transfer mechanism supporting children in some remarried stepparent families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Ono, Hiromi. "Family Types, Direct Money Transfers from Parents, and School Enrollment among Youth." Marriage and Family Review 47,1 (January 2011): 45-72.
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Ono, Hiromi |
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Parental Unions, Financial Transfers, and School Enrollment among Adolescents Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Children, Well-Being; Family Studies; Marriage; Parental Marital Status; Transfers, Financial Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. How "family diversity" affects children's well-being remains poorly understood. Proponents of some economic and evolutionary theories note that a parent composition that includes a step-parent is the source of the disadvantage because step-parents invest less in children than do biological parents and their investments yield smaller returns in child well-being. In contrast, proponents of a structural theory of the family suggest that parental union type (i.e., unions other than first marriage) rather than parent composition/type is the source. In this paper, I test two primary competing hypotheses with the first three waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of the Youth, 1997-2001: a) biological parents transfer more money and their transfers are more beneficial to children's academic well-being; and b) differentials do not exist by parent type, but exist by parental union type. |
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Bibliography Citation
Ono, Hiromi. "Parental Unions, Financial Transfers, and School Enrollment among Adolescents." Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004. |