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Title: Race and Ethnicity, Family Structure, and High School Graduation
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Sandefur, Gary D. McLanahan, Sara S. Wojtkiewicz, Roger A. |
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Race and Ethnicity, Family Structure, and High School Graduation Discussion Paper No. 893-89, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1989 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison Keyword(s): Endogeneity; Family Structure; Heterogeneity; High School Completion/Graduates; Minorities, Youth; Parental Influences; Parents, Single; Racial Differences; Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the 1979-1985 waves of the NLSY, this paper focuses on two questions: (1) Can racial and ethnic differences in family structure and single parenthood account for differences in high school graduation rates of white and minority youth? (2) What explains the relationship between family structure and school achievement? The authors find that parental education is more important than family structure in accounting for differences in schooling among whites, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans, and that family structure and parental education are equally important in accounting for differences between whites and blacks. Family income moderates some of the impact of family structure on children's graduation. Statistical controls for the endogeneity of family structure suggest that not all of the family structure effect on school graduation is due to unmeasured heterogeneity. |
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Sandefur, Gary D., Sara S. McLanahan and Roger A. Wojtkiewicz. "Race and Ethnicity, Family Structure, and High School Graduation." Discussion Paper No. 893-89, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1989. |