TY  - JOUR
AU  - Case,Anne
AU  - Lin,I-Fen
AU  - McLanahan,Sara
TI  - Educational Attainment in Blended Families
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7874
PY  - 2000
Y2  - September 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7874
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7874.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Anne Case
367 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609/258-2177
Fax: 609/258-5974
E-Mail: accase@princeton.edu

I-Fen Lin
Bowling Green State University
Department of Sociology
Bowling Green, OH  43403
E-Mail: ifenlin@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Sara McLanahan
Princeton University
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
E-Mail: mclanaha@Princeton.EDU
AB  - In this paper we compare the educational attainment of birth and non-birth children of women in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education on average than do the birth children of the same women. Controlling for the women's fixed effects, the non-birth children of a woman receive on average one year less schooling than do her birth children, with the educational break occurring at the time children finish high school and begin college.
ER  -