The effect of parental presence, parents' education, and household headship on adolescents' schooling and work in latin America

We investigate how the presence and education of parents affect adolescents' school attendance, work participation, and school attainment in Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Panama. Across the four countries, approximately 20% of adolescents live in single-mother families and 4% in single-father...

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Published in:Journal of family and economic issues 2006-06, Vol.27 (2), p.263-286
Main Authors: ARENDS-KUENNING, Mary, DURYEA, Suzanne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Adolescents
Brazil
Child Labor
Child labour
Children
Children & youth
Correlation analysis
Cross-national analysis
Datasets
Decision making
Ecuador
Education
Families & family life
Family relations
Family studies
Female Headed Households
GDP
Girls
Gross Domestic Product
Households
Labor force
Latin America
Level of education
Mothers
Nicaragua
One-parent families
Panama
Parenting
Parents & parenting
Per capita
School attendance
Schooling
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Single Parent Family
Single parents
Socioeconomic factors
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Studies
Teenagers
Urban areas
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Summary:We investigate how the presence and education of parents affect adolescents' school attendance, work participation, and school attainment in Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Panama. Across the four countries, approximately 20% of adolescents live in single-mother families and 4% in single-father families. Adolescents who live in single-mother families have significantly lower school attendance and attainment than adolescents who live with both parents. However, the effects of living in a single-mother family are small relative to the effects of parents' education. Adolescents who live in single-mother families are not more likely to work than adolescents in two-parent families. Finally, targeting benefits to children in single-mother families would reach more children at risk of poor school outcomes than targeting children in female-headed households. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1058-0476
1573-3475
DOI:10.1007/s10834-006-9011-1