Marital breakup and children's behavioural responses

Chiara Pronzato and Arnstein Aassve

No 12, CHILD Working Papers Series from Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA

Abstract: In contrast to most otherstudiesfocusing on children's cognitive outcomes and using crosssectional data, this paper exploits information from three waves of the Millennium Cohort Study to assess the impact of marital breakup on children's behaviour. Using fixed effect estimation throughout, the analysisshowsthat separation has an impact on some behavioural aspects, but not all, and that the impact may persist over time. On the contrary, we find negative anticipation effects, meaning that children of parents who are getting separated have fewer conduct problems. In terms of magnitude, the estimated effects, when significant, are allmodest.

Keywords: divorce; strength and difficulties questionnaire; child’s behaviuor; Millennium Cohort Study; fixed effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2013
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