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This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...
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The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to … than one third of girls still marry as children, and close to three in ten girls have their first child before turning 18 … strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies. Improving girls' education is also a priority of the government …
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experiencing parental divorce during adolescence reduces measured cognitive ability. To account for the potential endogeneity of … parental divorce we employ a difference-in-differences model that relies on observing teenagers' outcomes before and after … divorce. We find that parental divorce does not negatively affect teenagers' cognitive development. Our results also suggest …
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