Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths

Rainer Winkelmann

No 312, SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich

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: child welfare; educational attainment; happiness; German Socio-Economic Panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 I31 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2003-10
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Published in Journal of Socioeconomics 35(2), 2006, pages 197-208

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