Linked Lives and Childhood Experience of Family Death on Educational Attainment.

ABSTRACT: Sociological theory and research suggest that experiencing family members' deaths during childhood and adolescence is an important event subject to significant disparities. Previous research links immediate family members' deaths to poor life outcomes, but it considers a limited set of family members and has not tested the association of family member death with educational attainment. This study estimates the rates and educational impacts of experiencing the deaths of immediate (siblings, parents) and extended family members (aunts and uncles, cousins, and grandparents) during childhood and adolescence for Black and White Americans. We find that family death is associated with educational attainment, but the associations differ by family member type and gender, and child's race. Experienc

SUBMITTER: Patterson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8248584 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature