Table 6: Child Fixed Effects Estimation Comparing Foster Children with Host Siblings and Foster Children with Biological Siblings
|
Panel A: Foster Children Compared to Host Siblings |
_(3)_______ |
Panel B: Foster Children Compared to Biological Siblings | ||||
|
_(1)_______ |
J2)_____ |
___________________(4) |
(5) |
(6) | ||
|
Ever Fostered * After Fostering |
-0.006 |
-0.021 |
-0.046* |
0.001 |
-0.013 |
-0.042* |
|
[0.018] |
[0.022] |
[0.025] |
[0.018] |
[0.022] |
[0.024] | |
|
(Ever Fostered*After Fostering)*Male |
0.042 |
0.039 | ||||
|
[0.034] |
[0.035] | |||||
|
(Ever Fostered*After Fostering)*Young |
0.120*** |
0.118*** | ||||
|
[0.041] |
[0.041] | |||||
|
(Ever Fostered*After Fostering)*Middle |
0.040 |
0.039 | ||||
|
[0.028] |
[0.028] | |||||
|
Year = 1999 |
0.004 |
0.004 |
0.019* |
0.001 |
0.001 |
0.018** |
|
[0.010] |
[0.010] |
[0.010] |
[0.009] |
[0.009] |
[0.009] | |
|
Year = 2000 |
0.024** |
0.023** |
0.053*** |
0.016 |
0.016 |
0.049*** |
|
[0.012] |
[0.012] |
[0.011] |
[0.011] |
[0.011] |
[0.009] | |
|
Constant |
0.113*** |
0.112*** |
0.241*** |
0.060*** |
0.060*** |
0.167*** |
|
[0.019] |
[0.019] |
[0.007] |
[0.016] |
[0.016] |
[0.006] | |
|
Controls for Age Effects? a______________ |
Yes_____ |
Yes_____ |
Yes_____ |
______________Yes______ |
Yes______ |
Yes________ |
|
Observations |
2682 |
2682 |
2682 |
3632 |
3632 |
3632 |
|
Number of Children__________________ |
956 |
956 |
956 |
_______________1310 |
1310 |
1310_______ |
Note: Standard errors in brackets. *, **, *** indicate significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% respectively. The dependent variable is school enrollment with a
mean of 26.4 in Panel A and 19.0 in Panel B. All households that fostered a child in 1998, 1999, or 2000 are included in the regressions. The dataset in
Panel A consists of 640 host household siblings and 316 foster children measured over 3 years. The dataset in Panel B consists of 994 biological siblings
and 316 foster children measured over 3 years. In Panel A, I exclude 186 observations in which the child is under age 5 in a given year, and in Panel B, I
exclude 298 observations for the same reason. For columns 3 and 6, the omitted age category is children over age 12. Young children are aged 5, 6, or 7.
Middle children are aged 8 to 11. Data source: Author’s survey.
a For columns 1, 2, 4, and 5, I include dummy variables for each age, but in columns 3 and 6, for ease of presentation, I interact the age categories
young and middle with (Ever Fostered*After Fostering). Results are qualitatively similar if I instead interact age dummies with that variable.
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