The Effects of Change in Family Structure and Income on Dropping Out of Middle and High School

By S. Pong, Dong-Beom Ju. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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In Education

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2. J. Hoffmann
3. Yuanzhang Li
4. J. Dronkers
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6. Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink
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2. Yongmin Sun
3. J. Hoffmann
4. Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink
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6. Wim Groot
7. Joop Hartog
8. Stephen D. Rubb

In Safety Research

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2. Yuanzhang Li
3. Yongmin Sun
4. J. Dronkers
5. Gillian Hampden-Thompson
6. Kristof De Witte
7. Chiungjung Huang

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of Parent’s Gender, Child’s Gender, and Parental Involvement on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents in Single Parent Families (2007, background): “Studies on children reared in single-parent families consistently indicate negative effects on a child’s school achievement, completion, behavior, and social development (Amato & Keith, 1991; Astone & McLanahan, 1991; Downey, 1994; Featherstone & Cudnick, 1992; McLanahan & Sandefur, 1994; Pong, 1998”
• Family Policies and Children's School Achievement in Single‐ Versus Two‐Parent Families (2003, background): “Despite the fact that some American children living in single-parent homes do well in school, in general they face a higher risk of low academic achievement and of dropping out than do children who live in two-parent families (Amato, 2001; Astone & McLanahan, 1991; Mulkey, Crain, & Harrington, 1992;”
• Effects of Family Structure Type and Stability on Children's Academic Performance Trajectories (2011, background): “…low and fluctuating levels of financial and parenting resources associated with family transitions are major reasons for poor child outcomes in unstable families, empirical tests of such mediating effects have been restricted to statically measured child outcomes (e.g., Pong & Ju, 2000; Wu, 1996).”
• A Critical Review of the Literature on School Dropout (2013, background): “, 2002); or when low family income is combined with structural aspects such as family disruption (Suet-Ling, 2000).”
• Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives (2003, unknown): “It is estimated that approximately one third of children will live in a remarried or cohabitating family before the age of 18 (Bumpass, Raley, & Sweet, 1995).”
• Typology of students at risk of dropping out of school: Description by personal, family and school factors (2006, background): “In terms of family structure, at-risk students often come from broken homes or single-parent families (Pong & Ju, 2000; Walker et al., 1998).”
• Family Structure, Community Context, and Adolescent Problem Behaviors (2006, background): “Yet, it is clearly important that family structure research examine changes in family configurations, movements of families from one community type to another, and the effects of problem behaviors on family and peer relationships (Carlson and Corcoran, 2001; Pong and Ju, 2000; Wu, 1996).”