HCBE Faculty Articles
Title
How Paternal Involvement Affects Childhood Behavioral Outcomes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
Journal of Family and Economic Issues
ISSN or ISBN
1058-0476
Volume
35
Issue/Number
4
First Page
433
Last Page
451
Abstract/Excerpt
National Educational and Longitudinal Study 1988 (NELS88) data were used to examine the impact of parental involvement measures on the behavioral outcomes of high-school students. Parents’ general sense of involvement with the community, as well as non-school child-helping groups, were used as instruments for whether these parents were educationally involved with their child. The instrumental variables strategy helped quantify the true effect of parental involvement on own-child behavioral outcomes. The results showed that parental involvement led to better child behavioral outcomes at the high school level, and that this effect was strengthened in the instrumental variables results.
DOI
10.1007/s10834-013-9383-y
NSUWorks Citation
Neymotin, Florence, "How Paternal Involvement Affects Childhood Behavioral Outcomes" (2014). HCBE Faculty Articles. 834.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/834
