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Title: Family Structure and Education Achievement: an analysis of young adults in Brazil for 2010

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Using 2010 Brazilian Census data, this paper focuses on the relationship between family structure (be in a family with biological parents, or with one biological parent and one stepparent, or in a single parenting family) on educational achievement for young adult children between 18 to 24 years old. By education achievement we considered: 1) have finished high school; 2) be enrolled in high school or 3) neither of them. We used multinomial logit regression and the results show that young adults living with their biological parents are the ones with the highest probability of have finished or be enrolled in high school, followed by the ones living only with their mothers. The lowest probability is among children living in blended families.

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Authors: Tomás, Maria, C; Wajnman, Simone; Carvalho, Angelita C

Publisher: PUC MINAS

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Work, Family, and Time

Countries: Brazil