In the shadow of rising divorce and non-marital birth rates, nearly twothirdsof all American children today will live apart from at least one oftheir parents, usually the father. Clearly this astonishing proportion ofnon-resident fathers has serious implications for the economic,employment, and...

This study addresses three questions. Firstly, to what extent does divorceduring childhood have long-term consequences for the educationalattainment, economic situation, partnership formation and dissolution, andparenthood behaviour in adulthood? We show that in most of thesedomains children who...

This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers’ proximity and children’slong-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow(from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into married households in Norway inthe years 1975-1979...

In this study we pose two broad questions: what are the characteristics ofthe currently divorced; and who divorces? Divorce is used as an inclusiveterm to include separations from marriages and from cohabiting unions.In the first part data from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe...

Using data from cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, Kathleen Kiernanand Ganka Mueller have examined two questions: What does the currentlydivorced population look like; and what sort of people are likely to divorce(including breakdown of cohabitation)?The currently divorced are more likely...

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model,which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employmentand non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

Parental divorce has been an increasing experience amongst thegenerations of children born since the 1970s in European countries. Thisstudy analyses data on the partnership and parenthood behaviour ofthose children who experienced parental separation during childhoodfor nine Western European...

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from theperspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative newoperationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are clustered bypopulation share of visible immigrants in...

We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences inlife expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate anumber of duration of life...

Der vorliegende Werkstattbericht „Umweltbildung“ basiert auf den Ergebnissen desForschungsprojekts „Umweltbildung Erneuerbare Energien für Kinder und Jugendliche“. DasVorhaben wurde in der Zeit von September 2003 bis Februar 2005 von iserundschmidt –Kreativagentur für PublicRelations...