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Title: Family Structure and the Timing and Quality of College Attendance
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Li, Jui-Chung Allen |
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Family Structure and the Timing and Quality of College Attendance Presented: London, England, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, November 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Institute of Education, University of London Keyword(s): College Education; Event History; Family Structure; Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effects of family structure on college attendance for young women and men in the United States. Using event history models to analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I focus on the timing and quality of college attendance. I find that compared to children in two-parent families, children in stepparent and single-parent families are less likely to attend a college. Differences by family structure appear before age 21 and remain constant thereafter; and they come mainly from attending a four-year college, not a two-year college. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that children growing up in “non-intact” families are less likely than children growing up in “intact” families to attend college due to lack in economic resources. Moreover, children disadvantaged by family structure do not seem to catch up in college attendance once they do not enter college soon after high-school graduation. |
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Li, Jui-Chung Allen. "Family Structure and the Timing and Quality of College Attendance." Presented: London, England, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, November 2012. |