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Author: Pribesh, Shana
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1. Downey, Douglas B.
Powell, Brian
Steelman, Lala Carr
Pribesh, Shana
Much Ado About Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development: Comment on Guo and VanWey
American Sociological Review 64,2 (April 1999): 193-198.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2657526
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Change Scores; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Siblings

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Bibliography Citation
Downey, Douglas B., Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman and Shana Pribesh. "Much Ado About Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development: Comment on Guo and VanWey." American Sociological Review 64,2 (April 1999): 193-198.
2. Dufur, Mikaela J.
Pribesh, Shana
Jarvis, Jonathan
Family Structure and First-Term College GPA: Do Resources, Selectivity, and Resilience Factors Explain Potential Differences Across Family Structures?
Journal of Child and Family Studies published online (14 July 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s10826-022-02368-0.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-022-02368-0
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): College Education; Family Resources; Family Structure; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades; Post-Secondary Transcripts; Resilience/Developmental Assets

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Research shows negative associations between living in single-parent or stepparent families and average academic outcomes. But some children from non-traditional family structures are successful, such as those who enroll in college. Such students may be well suited to handle transitions to college because of their experience handling family transitions. By contrast, characteristics of non-traditional family structures generally associated with lower academic performance may persist into the collegiate context. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 Cohort to compare first-term college GPA for students from two-biological-parent, single-parent, and stepparent families. We employ data from the NLSY97 Post-Secondary Transcript Data (NLSY97-PST) (N = 3346) and regression analyses to test the degree to which three competing theoretical perspectives–--resources, family structure selectivity processes, or student resilience factors--might explain potential differences in college performance. Students from single-parent and stepparent families perform worse in their first collegiate semester than their peers from two-biological-parent families. Resources and selectivity factors explain differences for students from single-parent families, but explaining differences for students from stepparent families requires accounting for resilience factors as well.
Bibliography Citation
Dufur, Mikaela J., Shana Pribesh and Jonathan Jarvis. "Family Structure and First-Term College GPA: Do Resources, Selectivity, and Resilience Factors Explain Potential Differences Across Family Structures?" Journal of Child and Family Studies published online (14 July 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s10826-022-02368-0.
3. Dufur, Mikaela J.
Rowley, Kristie J.
Pribesh, Shana
Jarvis, Jonathan
Yue, Yuanyuan
Otero, Carolina
Alexander, Alyssa J.
Ferguson, Amanda
Enrollment in Two- and Four-Year Colleges: The Role of Family Structures and Transitions
Presented: San Antonio TX, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April-May 2017
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Educational Research Association
Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Family Income; Family Structure; Financial Assistance; Parents, Single; Post-Secondary Transcripts

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Children in disrupted families are less likely to apply to, be accepted to, or attend four-year colleges and universities than are their peers from stable, two-parent families. We extend exploration into why this may occur to youths' decisions to attend two- or four-year schools. To test this relationship, we use new data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-1997 Cohort Post-Secondary Transcript Study (NLSY97-PTS). Logistic regression models suggest that financial resources--both income and college support--explain enrollment differences between single mother families and two-biological-parent families. Selectivity effects explain differences for youth living only with fathers or with neither biological parent. Differences for youth with social fathers persist in our models.
Bibliography Citation
Dufur, Mikaela J., Kristie J. Rowley, Shana Pribesh, Jonathan Jarvis, Yuanyuan Yue, Carolina Otero, Alyssa J. Alexander and Amanda Ferguson. "Enrollment in Two- and Four-Year Colleges: The Role of Family Structures and Transitions." Presented: San Antonio TX, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April-May 2017.