Household transitions between ages 5 and 15 and educational outcomes: Fathers and grandparents in Peru

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND

Latin America has high rates of single motherhood and intergenerational coresidence, resulting in children experiencing changes in household composition – particularly with respect to fathers and grandparents. In other contexts, such changes have been shown to influence educational outcomes.

OBJECTIVE

To test if the presence of grandparents and fathers in the household are differentially associated with educational outcomes during schooling years in Peru.

METHODS

Young Lives longitudinal data consist of around 2,000 children who were followed from age 1 to age 15 between 2002 and 2017. Using value-added and child fixed effects models, I examine if the number of changes in household structure involving fathers and grandparents, the type of change (exit

SUBMITTER: Reynolds S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10062424 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature