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Loury, Linda Datcher |
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All in the Extended Family: Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles and Educational Attainment Working Paper 2006, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2006. Also: http://ase.tufts.edu/econ/papers/200610.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Department of Economics, Tufts University Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Family Influences; Grandparents; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous work on social interactions has analyzed the effects of nuclear family, peer, school, and neighborhood characteristics. This paper complements this research by first showing that individuals from similar nuclear families often differ in extended family member characteristics. It then demonstrates that older extended family members - aunts, uncles, and grandparents – independently affect college attendance probabilities and test score results of their younger relatives. In some cases, the sizes of the estimated effects are large enough to substantially narrow the achievement gap between disadvantaged and other youth....This paper shows that older extended family members - aunts, uncles, and grandparents – independently affect the schooling of their younger relatives. This means that previous research focusing only on nuclear family, peer, school, and neighborhood characteristics may not include some important social interactions that alter adolescent behavior. For example, youths from low socioeconomic status families may stay in school longer and have higher test scores if they have more educated extended family members. On the other hand, countervailing extended family influences may lower gains for disadvantaged adolescents in high income neighborhoods and schools. |
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Loury, Linda Datcher. "All in the Extended Family: Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles and Educational Attainment." Working Paper 2006, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2006. |