Using Military Deployments and Job Assignments to Estimate the Effect of Parental Absences and Household Relocations on Children’s Academic Achievement
利用美国陆军人员数据和德克萨斯州儿童标准化考试成绩，发现父母缺席和家庭搬迁对儿童学业成绩有负面影响，尤其对单亲家庭、母亲在军队、父母能力较低和年龄较小的儿童影响更大。
Military deployments and job assignments provide an opportunity to estimate the impact of parental absences and household relocations on children's academic achievement. Combining U.S. Army personnel data with children's standardized test scores from Texas, I find that parental absences adversely affect children's test scores by a tenth of a standard deviation. Likewise, household relocations have modest negative effects on children's test scores. Both parental absences and household relocations have the greatest detrimental effect on test scores of children with single parents, children with mothers in the army, children with lower-ability parents, and younger children.