NDLI: Family structure and child outcomes: a high definition, wide angle “snapshot”

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Conway, Karen Smith Li, Minghua
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Using data from the National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF), this research investigates the relationships between a highly defined set of family structures and a broad set of child outcomes at a particular point in time in a child’s life. A detailed classification of family structures is constructed that clarifies key differences among various types of diverse families, and facilitates equivalencies testing and pairwise comparisons across nontraditional family structures. The NSAF contains a large number of observations for less common, but growing, family structures such as single-father families, grandparent-headed households and cohabiters, which makes such detailed analyses feasible and allows further stratification by child age, gender and race. The data also contains information on child behavioral, educational and physical health outcomes, as well as extensive household characteristics, economic resources and parental behaviors and inputs. Results suggest that differences across nontraditional family structures are particularly prominent for child health outcomes and that the gender of the resident parent is empirically important, more so than the presence of a cohabiting or married step-parent. Children in single father families have lesser access to health care yet enjoy better health outcomes than those in other families, even after controlling for economic resources (and inputs). In contrast, few differences are found between grandparent-headed families and other non-parent families. While we explore alternative explanations for these results, our cross-sectional data and complex set of family structure variables preclude isolating causal relationships; instead, our analyses yield empirically important distinctions that point to promising avenues for future research.
Starting Page	345
Ending Page	374
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15695239
Journal	Review of Economics of the Household
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737152
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-04-13
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Family structure Child health and development Gender Social Sciences Population Economics Labor Economics Microeconomics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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