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Record Nr.

UNINA9910714394603321

Autore

Ginther Donna K

Titolo

Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children's Educational Outcomes / / Donna K. Ginther, Astrid L. Grasdal, Robert A. Pollak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse, , 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w26242

Classificazione

I21

J12

J13

Altri autori (Persone)

GrasdalAstrid L

PollakRobert A. <1938->

Soggetti

Analysis of Education

Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic Abuse

Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth

Statistics.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

September 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 8).

Sommario/riassunto

Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children.  We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children.  We analyze outcomes for almost 75,000 Norwegian children all of whom, at least until they were age 18, lived in nuclear families. Children with MPF fathers are more likely than other children from nuclear families to drop out of secondary school (24% vs 17%) and less likely to obtain bachelor's degrees (44% vs 51%). These gaps remain substantial after controlling for child and parental characteristics such as income and wealth, education and age: 4 percentage points (ppt) for dropping out of secondary school and 5 ppt for obtaining a bachelor's degree. Resource competition with the



children in the father's first family does not explain the differences in educational outcomes. We find that the association between a father's previous childless marriage and his children's educational outcomes is similar to the association between a father's MPF and his children's educational outcomes. This similarity suggests that selection plays the primary role in explaining the association between fathers' MPF and children's educational outcomes.