dc.contributor.author | BERNARDI, Fabrizio | |
dc.contributor.author | BOERTIEN, Diederik | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-01T14:53:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-01T14:53:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | European sociological review. 2016, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 807-819 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0266-7215 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2672 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/61448 | |
dc.description | Published: 31 July 2016 | |
dc.description.abstract | We use the British Cohort Study 1970 to show that the proportion of children achieving a tertiary education degree is 8 percentage points lower for the offspring of separated parents than for children from intact families. Moreover, the children of highly educated parents experience a two times larger 'separation penalty' than the children of less educated parents. We find a similar pattern of heterogeneity in effects for the likelihood of participation in academic education (A-Levels) beyond school leaving age but not for school grades at age 16. We test three different explanations for heterogeneity in the parental separation penalty: changes in family relations, changes in income, and negative selection into separation based on unobserved characteristics. We address the potential endogeneity of parental separation by including pre-separation observable characteristics, individual fixed effects models, and a placebo test. Our key finding is that changes in family income, but not those in family relations or selection, explain a large part of heterogeneity in the effects of parental separation. Children with more highly educated parents face a larger decline in family income if parents separate and, in addition, declines in family income of equal amounts entail more negative consequences for their educational attainment. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for the research project Families and Societies (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement no. 320116). | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/320116/EU | |
dc.relation.ispartof | European sociological review | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ | |
dc.rights.uri | Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Family-Structure | en |
dc.subject | Class Differentials | en |
dc.subject | Divorce | en |
dc.subject | Inequality | en |
dc.subject | Marriage | en |
dc.subject | Mothers | en |
dc.subject | Fathers | en |
dc.subject | Instability | en |
dc.subject | Regression | en |
dc.subject | Advantage | en |
dc.title | Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of parental separation on educational attainment in Britain : do children from lower educational backgrounds have less to lose? | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/esr/jcw036 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 32 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 807 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 819 | |
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dc.identifier.issue | 6 | |
dc.rights.license | Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND | |