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Article: Family size, family type and student achievement: cross-national differences and the role of socioeconomic and school factors.
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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INTRODUCTION
The finding that students from larger families have less favorable educational outcomes is well established in the United States (Blake, 1989; Mare and Chen, 1986; Powell and Parcel, 1999). Negative effects for family size or the number of siblings on educational attainment have been also found in Australia, Finland, Hong Kong and Israel (Le and Miller, 2001; Post and Pong, 1998; Riala, et al., 2003; Shavit and Pierce, 1991). With regard to family type, it is generally concluded that in the United States children from divorced families show poorer educational outcomes than children from intact families (Amato, 2000; Jeynes, 2002:13-18). Lower ...