Krein S F, Beller A H
Division of Family and Consumer Economics, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.
Demography. 1988 May;25(2):221-34.
This article examines the effect of living in a single-parent family on educational attainment by gender and race. According to household production theory, the reduction in parental resources for human capital investment in children living in a single-parent family should lower their educational attainment. Using matched mother-daughter and mother-son samples from the National Longitudinal Surveys, we constructed precise measures of the age and length of time a child lived in a single-parent family. Empirical findings show that the negative effect of living in a single-parent family (1) increases with the number of years spent in this type of family, (2) is greatest during the preschool years, and (3) is larger for boys than girls.
本文考察了单亲家庭生活对不同性别和种族教育成就的影响。根据家庭生产理论，单亲家庭中用于子女人力资本投资的父母资源减少，应会降低其教育成就。利用全国纵向调查中匹配的母女和母子样本，我们精确测量了孩子在单亲家庭生活的年龄和时长。实证研究结果表明，单亲家庭生活的负面影响：（1）随着在这类家庭中生活的年数增加而增大；（2）在学前阶段最为显著；（3）对男孩的影响大于女孩。
