Death and Divorce: The Long-Term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents.
Two quasi-experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult labor market and marital/fertility outcomes of adolescents. These involve individuals experiencing the death of a parent and legislative changes to the Canadian divorce law. Parental loss by death is assumed to be exogenous, the experiences of children with a bereaved background offering a benchmark to assess the endogeneity of parental loss through divorce. Adolescents whose parents divorced put off marriage and, once married, suffer a greater likelihood of marital instability, but their earnings and incomes are not on average much different from others. Copyright 2001 by University of Chicago Press.
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2001
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Authors: | Corak, Miles |
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Journal of Labor Economics. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 19.2001, 3, p. 682-715
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University of Chicago Press |
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