Northwestern University & American Bar Foundation, United States.
Texas A&M University & American Bar Foundation, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2020 May-Jul;88-89:102428. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102428. Epub 2020 Apr 18.
Paternal incarceration leads to educational disparities among children who are innocent of their fathers' crimes. The scale and concentration of mass paternal incarceration thus harms millions of innocent American children. Current individuallevel analyses neglect the contribution of macro-level variation in responses of punitive state regimes to this social problem. We hypothesize that state as well as individual level investment in exclusionary paternal incarceration diminishes the educational attainment of children, although state inclusionary investment in welfare and education can offset some - and could potentially offset more - of this harm. Understanding intergenerational educational attainment therefore requires individual- and contextuallevel analyses. We use Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models to analyze the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health. Disparities in postsecondary educational outcomes are especially detrimental for children of incarcerated fathers located in state regimes with high levels of paternal incarceration and concentrated disadvantage. This has important implications for intergenerational occupational and status attainment.
父亲入狱导致无辜的孩子在教育方面存在差距。大规模的父亲入狱现象的规模和集中程度因此危害了数百万无辜的美国儿童。当前的个体层面分析忽略了惩罚性州政府制度对这一社会问题反应的宏观层面变化的贡献。我们假设，州政府和个人层面对排斥性的父亲入狱的投资减少了儿童的教育程度，尽管州政府对福利和教育的包容性投资可以抵消部分——甚至可能抵消更多——这种危害。因此，理解代际教育程度需要个体和环境层面的分析。我们使用层次广义线性模型来分析青少年至成年健康全国纵向调查。对于处于父亲入狱率高和集中劣势的州制度中的入狱父亲的孩子来说，高等教育机会的差距尤其不利。这对代际职业和地位的获得具有重要意义。
