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Title: Family Composition and College Choice: Does It Take Two Parents To Go To The Ivy League?
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Lillard, Dean R. Gerner, Jennifer L. |
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Family Composition and College Choice: Does It Take Two Parents To Go To The Ivy League? Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 1996. Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; College Education; College Enrollment; Colleges; Family Characteristics; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Formation; Family Influences; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Influence Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using NLSY79 data, Lillard and Gerner found that children who do not consistently live with two biological parents are only half as likely to ever attend a selective college (defined as the top 50 in the nation). Even after controlling for parental income, employment and education, grade point average, SAT scores, and participation in sports and other extracurricular activities, the researches found 'striking' differences between students who lived with both biological parents and those who did not. |
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Lillard, Dean R. and Jennifer L. Gerner. "Family Composition and College Choice: Does It Take Two Parents To Go To The Ivy League?" Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 1996. |