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Title: Parental Unions, Financial Transfers, and School Enrollment among Adolescents
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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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Ono, Hiromi. "Parental Unions, Financial Transfers, and School Enrollment among Adolescents." Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004. |