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| Title: | | Are happiness and productivity lower among university students with newly-divorced parents? An experimental approach  |
| Authors: | | Proto, Eugenio Sgroi, Daniel Oswald, Andrew J. |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4755 |
| Abstract: | | We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background. We also measure student achievement in a randomized-trial productivity task. Our results seem both of scientific interest and of potential interest to parents. This study finds no evidence that students suffer after parental divorce. |
| Subjects: | | Labor productivity divorce well-being happiness experimental economics |
| JEL: | | D03 J24 C91 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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