Are Happiness and Productivity Lower Among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background. We also measure student achievement in a randomized-trial productivity task. Our results seem both of scientific interest and of potential interest to parents. This study finds no evidence that students suffer after parental divorce
Year of publication: |
2014
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Authors: | Proto, Eugenio |
Other Persons: | Sgroi, Daniel (contributor) ; Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor) |
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[2014]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Experiment | Studierende | Students | Großbritannien | United Kingdom | Zufriedenheit | Satisfaction | Familiensoziologie | Sociology of the family | Arbeitsproduktivität | Labour productivity | Scheidung | Divorce |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (22 p) |
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Series: | IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 4755 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.1552689 [DOI] |
Classification: | D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070293