Family structural influences on children's education attainment: evidence from Uruguay

Cid, Alejandro; Stokes, Charles E.

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Cid, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Stokes, Charles E.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-17T13:49:12Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-17T13:49:12Z
dc.date.issued	2011	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1309
dc.description.abstract	As the developed world has experienced a shift away from the traditional two biological parent family, scholars have sought to understand how children are faring in non-traditional homes. Debate has arisen over assertions that children from non traditional families do less well in school. Concerns about selection issues as well as a paucity of cross-cultural evidence, have led some scholars to question the causal influence of family structure on educational attainment. Using data from the 2006 Uruguayan household survey, we evaluate the influence of family structure on education using two different methods to deal with selection problems, an instrumental variables approach and propensity score matching. Both approaches yield evidence that growing up in non-traditional family structures has a negative causal impact on the schooling of Uruguayan boys, with more muted results for girls. (JEL: I2, J1)	es
dc.format.extent	59 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía; UM_CEE_2011_03	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Academic achievement	es
dc.subject	Family structure	es
dc.subject	Instrumental variables	es
dc.subject	Propensity score	es
dc.subject	Selection effects	es
dc.title	Family structural influences on children's education attainment: evidence from Uruguay	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cid, Alejandro. Universidad de Montevideo. Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Stokes, Charles E. University of Texas	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es