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Author: Li, Jui-Chung Allen
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Delaying Marital Disruption and Children's Behavior Problems Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=70634 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Well-Being; Divorce; Gender Differences; Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper revisits the policy question whether delaying a parental divorce improves children's emotional well-being. I argue that previous research has failed to distinguish between the effect of child's age at parental marital disruption and the effect of delaying parental marital disruption, and to adequately control for selection on unobservables. Using panel data from Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, preliminary results from additive nonparametric regressions replicate previous finding that children of divorce have lower emotional well-being than children in intact families at all ages, though with a curvilinear association strongest for those whose parents divorced in their early childhood and adolescence. However, the association reduces to zero at all ages by adding child fixed effects, suggesting that the previous finding is due to selection on unobservables. Thus, I conclude that there is no causal relationship between delaying parental marital disruption and children's emotional well-being. |
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Li, Jui-Chung Allen. "Delaying Marital Disruption and Children's Behavior Problems." Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. |
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Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems Presented: Chicago, IL, Council on Contemporary Families Annual Meetings, April 25-26, 2008. Also: http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/0/2/9/7/pages102979/p102979-1.php Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Council on Contemporary Families Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Divorce Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper asks whether parents should avoid or delay a divorce for the sake of their kids. Specifically, I examine the average treatment effects of parental divorce, age at divorce, and duration following divorce on behavior problems for children of divorce. Using panel data from Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, I estimate a series of fixed-effects/first-differencing models that are only possible with the long array of repeated measurements unique of these data. The results differ substantially between conventional OLS regressions and the fixed-effects/first-differencing models that eliminate biases due to unobserved heterogeneity. I conclude that, for children of divorce, (1) divorce slightly decreases their emotional wellbeing; (2) delaying a divorce decreases their emotional wellbeing; and (3) parental divorce has little lasting effect (although there is no sign of recovery, either). The findings suggest that parents should avoid a divorce if they could. However, if the marriage is so hopeless that they had to divorce, they should get it sooner than later for the sake of their kids. These is indirect evidence that income and residential changes after divorce contribute to the lack of recovery for children in the aftermath of divorce. |
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Li, Jui-Chung Allen. "Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems." Presented: Chicago, IL, Council on Contemporary Families Annual Meetings, April 25-26, 2008. |
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Family Structure and the Timing and Quality of College Attendance Presented: London, England, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, November 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Institute of Education, University of London Keyword(s): College Education; Event History; Family Structure; Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effects of family structure on college attendance for young women and men in the United States. Using event history models to analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I focus on the timing and quality of college attendance. I find that compared to children in two-parent families, children in stepparent and single-parent families are less likely to attend a college. Differences by family structure appear before age 21 and remain constant thereafter; and they come mainly from attending a four-year college, not a two-year college. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that children growing up in “non-intact” families are less likely than children growing up in “intact” families to attend college due to lack in economic resources. Moreover, children disadvantaged by family structure do not seem to catch up in college attendance once they do not enter college soon after high-school graduation. |
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Li, Jui-Chung Allen. "Family Structure and the Timing and Quality of College Attendance." Presented: London, England, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, November 2012. |
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Rethinking the Case Against Divorce Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, May 2007 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Well-Being; Divorce; Factorial Survey Method / Vignette Method / Simulations; Gender Differences; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Propensity Scores; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this dissertation, I reconsider the case against divorce (1) by examining the effects of divorce on the well-being of children and adults and on the cultural beliefs concerning family migration decisions in three empirical studies, and (2) by making two methodological contributions that help unravel the several puzzles in the empirical analyses of this dissertation. In the first study, I examine children's emotional well-being, measured by behavior problems. Using panel data from the mother-child sample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and fixed-effects and random-trends models to control for selection on unobservables, I find that there is no effect of divorce on behavior problems for children of divorce. In the second study, I discuss methodological issues and describe a propensity score method for studying the effect of an event. I then apply this method in examining the effect of divorce on health using data from the adult sample of the NLSY79. I find that divorce has a negative effect on mental health for both divorced men and women. Divorce also has a negative effect on divorced women's physical health and general health status, but no effect on divorced men's physical health and general health status. In the third study, I develop a "computerized multivariate factorial survey" vignette method for studying the interrelated sociopsychological processes. I then apply this method in examining cultural beliefs concerning marriage prospects and family migration decisions. I probe what a convenience sample of respondents believe the probability of divorce for fictitious couples would be and what they believe the same fictitious couples would do when one spouse receives a job offer that requires moving to another city. Using simultaneous-equation models with correlated errors, I find that the respondents are more likely to believe that a fictitious couple would choose to live apart for work, if the respondents also believe that the same couple has a higher probability of divorcing within five years. I also find a gender asymmetry in respondents' beliefs, with respondents seeing a fictitious couple as more likely to take a job offer and move when the husband, rather than the wife, receives the job offer. |
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Li, Jui-Chung Allen. Rethinking the Case Against Divorce. Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, May 2007. |
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The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems Working Paper WR-489, RAND Corporation, May 2007. Also: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2007/RAND_WR489.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: RAND Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Well-Being; Divorce; Gender Differences; Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Racial Differences Although social scientists and commentators agree that parents should be responsible for their children's well-being and keep their children's interest in mind when they consider the possibility of ending a marriage, they disagree on how much the association between parental divorce and child well-being is causal. This paper reexamines the causal claim that parental divorce is detrimental to children's emotional well-being, measured in terms of behavior problems. I analyze panel data from the 1986-2002 waves of Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. As in previous research, I find that parental divorce is associated with a higher level of behavior problems in children in the ordinary least squares regressions that adjust for observed factors. However, once I control for selection on unobserved factors that are either constant over time or change at a constant rate over time by using generalizations of the child fixed-effects model, the effect of divorce substantially declines and is no longer statistically significant. I conclude that children of divorce would have fared equally well/poor in terms of their emotional well-being if their parents had remained married. |
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Li, Jui-Chung Allen. "The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems." Working Paper WR-489, RAND Corporation, May 2007. |
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Wu, Lawrence L. Li, Jui-Chung Allen |
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Children of the NLSY79: A Unique Data Resource Monthly Labor Review 128,2 (February 2005): 59-62. Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/02/art8exc.htm Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Behavior; Children; Education; Longitudinal Surveys; Overview, Child Assessment Data; Socioeconomic Background The survey provides a wealth of information on the education, socioeconomic background, and cognitive, social, and emotional development of children aged 14 and younger; and on the workforce participation, education, marital, and fertility behaviors of young adults aged 15 or older; the data have been heavily used by researchers across a wide range of disciplines. A remarkable design aspect of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) is the availability of longitudinal data on all children born to women in the original NLSY79 sample. The resulting data from the Children of the NLSY79 provide a resource that is unique in many respects. Perhaps not surprisingly, these data have been used by researchers across a wide range of disciplines, including child development, demography, economics, epidemiology, family studies, social policy, and sociology. Much of the usefulness of these data stem from two key factors: they can be linked to the rich longitudinal data for the NLSY79 mothers, and the child and young adult surveys are themselves longitudinal, covering a wide range of ages from early childhood and adolescence through the young adult years. Sample design As noted in other articles in this issue of the Monthly Labor Review, the main respondents in the NLSY79 are a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 14–22 in 1979, with surveys conducted annually through 1994 and biennially since 1996. The child sample—consisting of offspring aged 14 or younger—was begun in 1986, while the young adult sample—consisting of offspring aged 15 or older—was begun in 1994, with both the child and young adult samples fielded biennially since initial data collection.1 The survey instruments differ substantially in the child and young adult surveys, as reviewed below. Because of the longitudinal design of the child and young adult samples, offspring are interviewed initially in the child sample, and then in the young adult sample as they reach adolescence. Thus by design, sample sizes in the two samples will vary from wave to wave, but as of the 2002 wave, the child sample contained 11,340 children, and the young adult sample contained 4,648 young adults. |
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Wu, Lawrence L. and Jui-Chung Allen Li. "Children of the NLSY79: A Unique Data Resource." Monthly Labor Review 128,2 (February 2005): 59-62.
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