Abstract
This paper examines the relative likelihood of an adolescent 13-16 being in school by his or her family situation in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Panama. Both countries had moderate levels of school attendance but rather different socioeconomic conditions and marital patterns. Family situations included parents who were unmarried, consensually married or formally married, and family households that were singleparent, simple two-headed or complex. Children’s living arrangements were diverse and differed between countries, but despite this, the study finds that children living in formally-married two- parent simple family households in both countries were most likely to still be in school after controlling for a number of factors thought to affect school attendance. The finding could inform debates about the nature of social reproduction under different family regimes.
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