This study investigated the effects of divorce on educational gaps in mothers’ economic resources. The results shed new … light on two opposing theoretical positions that have informed research on social inequality in the consequences of divorce …. Recent extensions of the “diverging destinies” perspective posit that divorce is more consequential among the disadvantaged …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …

transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment … children, day-care quality was unrelated to employment. …

This study examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce for multiple measures of psychological, economic … couples (N = 755) to compare both spouses over a period of up to four years before and after divorce. Findings showed that men …

Many studies confirm that marriage does not have lasting effects on levels of happiness, whereas divorce induces … divorce impacts the subjective well-being (SWB) of the divorced. Taking into consideration that remarriage often entails … provides a complementary perspective to existing researches on divorce and debates over the hedonic treadmill theory. …

eating, and smoking). Control variables included age, notable changes in status (life events such as having children or …-related behaviors, age, children, employment, stress, and health). BMI after separation was largely comparable to BMI before starting … cohabitation; women lost some weight in the first year, men gained some weight after four or more years of separation. Divorce …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …