Parental separation and children's educational attainment. Heterogeneity and rare and common educational outcomes.

Autor/inn/en	Bernardi, Fabrizio; Comollie, Chiara Ludovica
Titel	Parental separation and children's educational attainment. Heterogeneity and rare and common educational outcomes.
Quelle	In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 31 (2019) 1, S. 3-26 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Diagramm
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1437-2940
DOI	10.3224/zff.v31i1.01
URN	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62206-4
Schlagwörter	Forschung; Trennung; Eltern; Kind; Bildungsabschluss; Einflussfaktor; Heterogenität; Risikofaktor; Ursache; Wirkung; Spanien
Abstract	While the association between parental separation and children's lower educational achievements is a robust finding, the evidence regarding its heterogeneity across social groups is mixed. Some studies show that socioeconomically advantaged families manage to shelter their pupils from the consequences of parental break-up, while others find the opposite. We contribute to this debate and sketch a structural theory of the heterogeneity of the consequences associated to parental separation on children's educational outcomes. We argue that the separation penalty and its heterogeneity across social backgrounds differ depending on the selectivity of a given educational outcome. In particular, the smallest penalty will be observed for very rare and very common outcomes. The rarity of an educational outcome depends on pupils' social background, which might produce the observed heterogeneity even if the separation penalty itself is equal across parental social background.
Erfasst von	Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin
Update	2020/1