School Enrollment Impacts of Non-traditional Household Structure’, mimeo

Children growing up away from their biological parents may experience lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment using \u85xed e¤ects regressions to address the endogeneity of fostering. Data collection by the author involved tracking and interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering ex-change, allowing a comparison of foster children with their non-fostered biological siblings. Young foster children are 17.5 and 17.9 percent more likely to be enrolled after fostering than their host and biological siblings, respectively. This schooling improvement translates into a long-run im-provement in educational and occupational attainment