Dinheiro e pais

Um post de Chris Dillow:

[T]his paper, which has just comes to my attention, (...) confirm that there is "a large negative correlation" between living in a non-intact family and having low educational attainment.

But this is because there's a large negative correlation between being poor and having low education, and single parents tend to be poor. And Walker and Zhu found that, controlling for this removes almost all the link between single parenthood and bad educational attainment. They estimate that a child from a single parent home is 27 percentage points more likely to leave school at 16 than one from an intact family. But controlling for income reduces this probability to just 5.9 percentage points. And with the standard error of this estimate at 10.1 points, we can't rule out the possibility that the pure impact of single parenthood upon educational achievement is zero or even positive.

So, perhaps the problem isn't that dads leave home - but that their money does.