Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35905 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4755
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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

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