@article{e3ff413df0884d2ea4957b08fef07aff,
title = "Linked Lives and Childhood Experience of Family Death on Educational Attainment",
abstract = "Sociological theory and research suggest that experiencing family members{\textquoteright} deaths during childhood and adolescence is an important event subject to significant disparities. Previous research links immediate family members{\textquoteright} deaths to poor life outcomes, but it considers a limited set of family members and has not tested the association of family member death with educational attainment. In this study the authors estimate the rates and educational impacts of experiencing the deaths of immediate (siblings, parents) and extended (aunts and uncles, cousins, and grandparents) family members during childhood and adolescence for black and white Americans. The authors find that family death is associated with educational attainment, but the associations differ by family member type and gender and child{\textquoteright}s race. Experiences of family death are unequally distributed by race and demonstrate complex associations with educational attainment. This research broadens life-course and family-systems theory by incorporating childhood family experiences of death on adult educational attainment and stratification.",
author = "Patterson, {Sarah E.} and Verdery, {Ashton M.} and Jonathan Daw",
note = "Funding Information: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Data collection for the PSID was partly supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 HD069609) and the National Science Foundation (1157698). We also acknowledge assistance provided by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (T32AG000221), the Population Research Institute, which is supported by an infrastructure grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041025), a Family Demography Traineeship (T32HD007514), and the Institute for CyberScience at Penn State. Additionally, we acknowledge assistance from the Joint Programming Initiative, More Years Better Lives funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (MYB-150262), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (435-2017-0618, 890-2016-9000). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Funding Information: We thank Emily Smith-Greenaway for comments. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Data collection for the PSID was partly supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 HD069609) and the National Science Foundation (1157698). We also acknowledge assistance provided by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (T32AG000221), the Population Research Institute, which is supported by an infrastructure grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041025), a Family Demography Traineeship (T32HD007514), and the Institute for CyberScience at Penn State. Additionally, we acknowledge assistance from the Joint Programming Initiative, More Years Better Lives funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (MYB-150262), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (435-2017-0618, 890-2016-9000). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2020.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1177/2378023120975594",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "6",
journal = "Socius",
issn = "2378-0231",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
}