How unilateral divorce affects children.

Autor/inn/en	Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio
Titel	How unilateral divorce affects children. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wie die einseitige Scheidung Kinder beeinflusst.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2008), 33 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion Paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH. 3342
Beigaben	Tabellen 6
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
URN	urn:nbn:de:101:1-200910132683
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Ehescheidung; Mutter; Kind; Schulbesuch; Armut; Lebensbedingungen; Wirtschaftslage; Auswirkung; Nordamerika; USA
Abstract	"Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age 6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the fraction of mothers below the poverty line. For children, we find not only negative results on investment, measured as the probability that a child goes to a private school, but also on child outcomes, measured by the likelihood of children aged 0-4 being held back in school at the time of the reform. We then analyze outcomes of the same cohorts of children 10 years later, by studying young men and women aged 16-25 using the 1970-1990 U.S. Census. We find an increase in marginality for these cohorts, measured as the probability of living in an institution (men) or the probability of being below the poverty line (women). We find that the impact in outcomes is particularly important for black children and young adults." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/4