Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20459 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1206
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we analyse data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to investigate whether experiencing parental divorce during adolescence reduces measured cognitive ability. To account for the potential endogeneity of parental divorce we employ a difference-in-differences model that relies on observing teenagers' outcomes before and after divorce. We find that parental divorce does not negatively affect teenagers' cognitive development. Our results also suggest that cross-section estimates overstate the detrimental effect of parental divorce.
Subjects: 
divorce
difference in differences
cognitive development
JEL: 
J12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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