The impact of parental separation on the pattern of transition to adulthood in Italy

Marcantonio Caltabiano (), Silvia Meggiolaro () and Valentina Tocchioni ()
Additional contact information
Marcantonio Caltabiano: Università degli Studi di Messina
Silvia Meggiolaro: Università degli Studi di Padova
Valentina Tocchioni: Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Università di Firenze, https://www.disia.unifi.it

No 2023_07, Econometrics Working Papers Archive from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti"

Abstract: Many studies investigate the effects of parental separation on children, concentrating on short-term adjustment or long-term effects. Nevertheless, most of them usually consider each outcome separately, thus missing to look at the interdependencies among the different events. This paper focuses on the effects of parental separation on the events marking the transition to adulthood (from the end of education to parenthood) in a comprehensive way concentrating on a country, Italy, characterized by many peculiarities. Our aim is to verify whether young adults whose parents separated during childhood or youth show alternative pathways in comparison with those living with both parents, considering also whether the age at parental separation plays a role in differentiating these trajectories. Using data from two cross-sectional rounds of the survey ‘Families and Social Subjects’ conducted in 2009 and 2016, we applied the Sequence Analysis Multistate Model procedure. Results suggest that children of non-intact families present particular trajectories especially for the formation of their own household, where a strong cultural effect seems to be at play (e.g., favoring cohabitation). Children’s age at parental separation seems to differentiate more the pattern towards young adults’ economic independence than of formation of their own household.

Keywords: parental separation; transition to adulthood; sequence analysis; competing-risk models; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2023-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/2023/wp_disia_2023_07.pdf First version, 2023-07 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:econom:wp2023_07

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Econometrics Working Papers Archive from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti" Viale G.B. Morgagni, 59 - I-50134 Firenze - Italy. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Fabrizio Cipollini ().