家庭婚姻狀況對於子女數學成績的影響

本研究利用「台灣學生學習成就評量資料庫」2009年、2010以及2011年3年調查資料，來探討家庭婚姻狀況對小孩教育表現的影響。我以數學成績來衡量小孩的教育表現，主要是因為數學成績已被認為與未來人力資本有正向關係；另外，主要的解釋變數為家庭婚姻狀況，分為「離婚」與「分居」狀況。利用最小平方法估計之後，我們發現父母離異的小孩之數學成績顯著地較父母同住家庭的小孩來得低。惟受資料問項不完整之影響，仍有諸多家庭背景因素未能控制於模型中，此為本研究之限制。

關鍵字

離婚；數學

並列摘要

This study uses the three-year survey data of「Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement」in 2009、2010 and 2011 to explore the impact of parental marital status on children’s mathematic performance. I use mathematic scores as a child’s educational performance, because that mathematic scores have been considered to have a positive relationship with future human capital. In additional, the main explanatory variable is binary variable for indicating family’s marital status, which is divided into “divorce” and “separation”with base group of intact family. Using the ordinary least squares method，we found that the math scores of children whose parents were divorced were significantly lower than those of children whose parents lived in intact family. However, due to the incompleteness of the data, there are still many family background factors that cannot be controlled in the model, which is the limitation of this study.