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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. Experiences of family death are unequally distributed by race and demonstrate complex associations with educational attainment. This research broadens life course and family systems theory by incorporating childhood family experiences of death on adult educational attainment and stratification.

SUBMITTER: Patterson SE

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Patterson Sarah E SE Verdery Ashton M AM Daw Jonathan J

Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world 20200101

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, paren ...[more]

PMID: 34222657

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

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

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