Household composition, economic resources, and residence are not necessarily stable across childhood. Changes in parental relationship status, parental employment, and residence have been shown to affect children’s educational attainment. Less studied is the fact that these events can occur in combination: families could experience more than one of these disruptive events within the same time period (e.g. year); from a life course perspective, families could experience multiple events throughout their lives. Using linear regression models to analyse data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a longitudinal study of U.S. individuals, I confirmed that the children of parents who experienced employment loss or gain, or partner loss or gain demonstrated lowered odds of high school completion, college attendance, and college completion. Residential moves increased the odds of high school completion but decreased chances of college completion. I then found that experiencing two disruptive events within a given two-year period led to an increased negative effect compared to experiencing only one event. These findings robustly applied to different comparison group specifications. Finally, I showed that, generally, increasing the number of disruptive events decreased the probability of attaining the educational outcomes considered.

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家庭破裂的层面：巧合，互动以及对儿童教育程度的影响

家庭组成，经济资源和居住地不一定在整个童年时期都稳定。父母关系状况，父母工作和居住的变化已显示出会影响孩子的受教育程度。这些事件可以组合发生的事实研究较少，家庭在同一时期（例如一年）可能经历不止一种破坏性事件；从生命历程的角度来看，家庭可能在一生中经历多次事件。我使用线性回归模型分析了来自美国个人的纵向研究《收入动态》小组研究的数据，我确认经历过工作丧失或获得收入，伴侣丧失或获得收入的父母的子女证明其大学毕业的几率降低出勤和大学结业。住宅搬迁增加了高中毕业的几率，但减少了大学毕业的几率。然后，我发现在给定的两年时间内经历两次破坏性事件导致的负面影响与仅经历一次事件相比有所增加。这些发现强有力地适用于不同的比较组规范。最后，我表明，一般而言，破坏性事件数量的增加会降低获得考虑的教育成果的可能性。