Rhelyn Harder
- There are greater chances that children from same-sex couples are more likely to graduate
- Socio-economic conditions of same–sex households where the children have grown up maybe a factor in their academic performance as well
- Researchers recognized that they were unable to conclude if the gender of same-sex couples mattered in the performance of the children due to their samples
A research conducted in the Netherlands, surveying the school performance of children raised by same-sex couples, have achieved better test results.
The study was presented at the American Economic Association conference and was written about in The Washington Post last January.
They conducted their study at the Belgian University KU Leuven where the economic researchers compared the academic achievements of 1,200 kids raised by same-sex couples and more than a million children raised by the opposite-sex couples who were born between 1995 and 2005.
“Our findings indicate that children particularly benefit from same-sex couples compared to opposite-sex couples if the couple is cohabiting rather than married,” researchers wrote in the paper, titled “School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data.”
On the results, there was greater chances of children from the same-sex couples to be more likely to graduate.
They added: “Further, we also find that children from same-sex couples continue to outperform children from opposite-sex couples in secondary education. Our results suggest that children from same-sex couples are 6.7 percent more likely to graduate than children from opposite-sex couples.”
They believed that socio-economic conditions of the same–sex household where the children have grown up maybe a factor in their academic performance.
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“Our results mostly support the selection approach stating that given the time-consuming and costly procedures for same-sex couples to obtain children, same-sex parents typically have a high socioeconomic status resulting in higher parental investment,” they state in the paper.
Researchers said that once they have a control for variables such as income, education and age, the performance of kids raised by same-sex couples differed to those raised by opposite-sex couples was reduced.
“Nonetheless, the positive association was not entirely removed,” researchers added.
The researcher recognized that they were unable conclude if the gender of same-sex couples mattered in the performance of the children due to their sample, and they were not able to include results about children raised by single, LGBT+ parents or bisexual and transgender couples.
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