Using military deployments and job assignments to estimate the effect of parental absences and household relocations on children's academic achievement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lyle, DS
• 署名单位: United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Military Academy
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/499975
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 319-350
• 关键词: families; work

摘要

Military deployments and job assignments provide an opportunity to estimate the impact of parental absences and household relocations on children's academic achievement. Combining U. S. Army personnel data with children's standardized test scores from Texas, I find that parental absences adversely affect children's test scores by a tenth of a standard deviation. Likewise, household relocations have modest negative effects on children's test scores. Both parental absences and household relocations have the greatest detrimental effect on test scores of children with single parents, children with mothers in the army, children with lower-ability parents, and younger children.