Frisco Michelle L, Muller Chandra, Frank Kenneth
Department of Sociology and Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 211 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802 (
J Marriage Fam. 2007 Aug 1;69(3):721-741. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00402.x.
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study to estimate how parents' union dissolution influences changes in adolescents' mathematics course work gains, overall grade point average, and course failure rates during a window of approximately 1 year (N = 2,629). A primary purpose of this study is demonstrating the utility of propensity score matching techniques for studying topics such as ours that pose methodological challenges such as dealing with endogeneity and selection bias. We compare propensity score matching techniques to ordinary least squares (OLS) regression methods to show and discuss comparability of results obtained using these different procedures. Findings suggest that associations between parents' union dissolution and achievement may be causal, regardless of method used.
我们使用来自青少年健康全国纵向研究和青少年健康与学业成就研究的数据，来估计父母离异如何影响青少年数学课程成绩的变化、总体平均绩点以及在大约1年的时间窗口内的课程不及格率（N = 2629）。本研究的一个主要目的是证明倾向得分匹配技术在研究我们这类存在诸如处理内生性和选择偏差等方法挑战的课题时的效用。我们将倾向得分匹配技术与普通最小二乘法（OLS）回归方法进行比较，以展示和讨论使用这些不同程序获得的结果的可比性。研究结果表明，无论使用何种方法，父母离异与学业成就之间的关联可能是因果关系。
