Making the Transition

However, the direction of the effects are consistent with the view that evangelical Protestant school graduates are focused on marriage and family during the young adult years. [...] Another approach to education in young adult- hood is to consider the role of school sector in the In contrast, homeschool graduates are significant- likelihood of achieving a bachelor’s degree by the ly less likely to complete a bachelor’s degree by age age of twenty-nine (since the CES sample is limit- twenty-four than are public school graduates. [...] That is con- sistent with the finding that school-sector effects The predicted probabilities for each school sector on completing the degree before age twenty-four provide some sense of the strength of the effects on and completing the bachelor’s degree by age twen- educational attainment. [...] We find in the NSYR data that uates are significantly less likely to be lost in tran- 8 THE EFFECT OF SCHOOL SECTOR ON EXTENDED ADOLESCENCE sition, and are strongly oriented to obtaining uni- show that evangelical Protestant school graduates versity credentials in the usual timeframe during are nearly half as likely as public school graduates young adulthood. [...] The size of the estimates ences when considering marital status using the 1 Note that this contrasts with other analyses, including one study that predicts the age of first marriage using the first US wave of the CES (Uecker and Hill 2014).