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In this paper we analyse data from the National Education Longitudinal Study to investigate whether experiencing parental divorce during adolescence has an adverse impact on students' performance on standardized tests. To account for the potential endogeneity of parental divorce we employ double...
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Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...
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localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …
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This paper documents that a shift from a selective to a comprehensive education system had implications for marriage … both because children from poor backgrounds started to marry up, and because those from wealthy backgrounds became more …
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Marriage and work have long been central to debates regarding poverty and the family. Although ample research … demonstrate their negative association with child poverty, both marriage and work have undergone major transformations over recent … marriage, work, and relative measures of child poverty from 1974-2010. Results indicated both marriage and work still decrease …
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