Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths

Rainer Winkelmann

No 894, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between youths living in intact and non-intact families, holding many other potential determinants of well-being constant using ordered probit regressions. The main finding of this study is that living in a non-intact family has not the hypothesised large negative effect on child well-being.

Keywords: German Socio-Economic Panel; child welfare; educational attainment; happiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 I31 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2003-10
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Published - published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 197-208

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