Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51746 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5898
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using Australian HILDA panel data. The dependent variable is composed of answers to the statement: Generally speaking, most people can be trusted. The main explanatory variables include the occurrence of parental divorce for the whole sample and the age at which parents divorced for the sub-sample. The analysis is conducted using random effects ordered probit, correlated random effects ordered probit and instrumental variables ordered probit models. The results indicate that the level of generalized trust is significantly affected by parental divorce for both men and women. This main result is very robust to alternative specifications. Furthermore, there is a marginally significant effect on the expressed level of generalized trust due to age at which parents divorced for women, but not men.
Subjects: 
parental divorce
generalized trust
HILDA
random effects ordered probit
instrumental variables ordered probit
JEL: 
J12
J13
H8
Z13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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