父母離婚、死亡、再婚對子女教育成就之影響：兄弟姐妹長期追蹤資料

本文使用中央研究院社會學研究所長達11年的「臺灣青少年成長歷程研究」追蹤調查資料，透過父母親出生年、子女出生年，以及父母親婚姻狀態改變或死亡之年分，建構子女在0-18歲父母親離婚、死亡、再婚之長期資料。在考量54%子女仍在學中，本文分別以隨機效果Tobit模型、隨機效果Logit與固定效果Logit模型，探討父母親婚姻狀態發生改變或死亡的時間點及時間長短，對子女最終教育年數及是否上大學之影響。實證結果顯示，父母親的三種婚姻狀態：離婚、過世與再婚，皆顯著負向影響子女教育成就，其中以父母親離婚對子女教育成就之負向影響最大。父母親婚姻狀態改變的時間點在國小前或國小時期，對其子女教育成就之負面影響最大。在婚姻狀態改變的時間長短上，童年時期與青少年時期有不同的邊際效果，以青少年時期父母親離婚的邊際影響最大。

關鍵字

父母離異；教育成就；隨機效果Tobit模型；兄弟姐妹長期追蹤資料

並列摘要

In this study, we examined the effects of family disruption, including parental divorce, death, and remarriage, during the period of children's childhood and adolescenthood on their later educational achievement by using sibling data from the 2000-2011 Taiwan Youth Project Phases I and II. By using the birth years of parents and their children, and the year that family disruption occurred, we construct the longitudinal status of family structure for each child from age 0-18. In this study, the educational achievement is assessed by taking into account the family unobserved heterogeneity and right censoring. Our results show that the three statuses of family structure: parental divorce, death, and remarriage, are all significantly and negatively associated with their children's educational achievement. Parent's divorce has the largest and long-lasting negative impacts on their children's educational achievements. The parental divorce occurring during the childhood period has the largest accumulated impacts. The marginal effect, however, are largest during the adolescenthood of their children.

並列關鍵字

parental separation ； educational achievement ； random-effect Tobit model ； sibling longitudinal data

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