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JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Volume 72, Issue 5, Pages 1362-1376Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00770.x
Keywords
childhood/children; cross-national; education; family policy; family structure; multilevel models
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R24 HD041022] Funding Source: Medline
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Research in the United States has shown that children growing up in 2-parent households do better in school than children from single-parent households. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to test whether this finding applied to other countries as well (N = 100,307). We found that it did, but that the educational gap was greater in the United States than in the other 13 countries considered. Results from 2-level hierarchical linear models demonstrated that international differences in the educational gap were associated with several indicators of national policy and demographic contexts. No single policy appeared to have a large effect, but several policy combinations were associated with substantially reduced educational gaps between children from different family structures.
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