Educational attainment of siblings in stepfamilies

By Anne Case, I. Lin, Sara McLanahan. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment (2007, background): “…two-biological-parent household is in the best interests of children (for evidence of this consensus, see Amato 2005; Amato and Keith 1991; Case, Lin, and McLanahan 2000, 2001; Popenoe 1993, 1999; Sun 2003).3 The implicit point of much empirical work on single-parent families and…”
Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden (2007, methodology): “Case et al. (2001) use the PSID to evaluate the educational attainment of children living with their birth and non-birth mothers.”
Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition (2004, background): “The evidence from these studies, which have used sibling comparisons (Bjorklund and Sundstrom 2004; Case, Lin, and McLanahan 2001; Ermish and Francesconi 2001; Gennetian forthcoming; Ginther and Pollak 2004), instrumental variables (Gruber 2000; Johnson and Mazingo 2000), natural experiments…”
Are All Dads Equal? Biology versus Marriage as a Basis for Paternal Investment (2003, result): “In contrast, Case, Lin, and McLanahan (2001) found that although differences in outcomes were smaller for stepchildren and biological children within families than across families, stepchildren in blended families nonetheless completed less education than biological children from the same househol”
Does single parenthood increase the probability of teenage promiscuity, substance use, and crime? (2007, background): “…behavior.14 A number of recent studies find that children raised in stepfamilies have worse educational outcomes than children raised in intact families (Case, Lin, and McLanahan 2001, Ginther and Pollak 2003, Painter and Levine 2000, Biblarz and Raftery 1999, Boggess 1998, and Wojtkiewicz 1993).”