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Title: Parental Divorce is not Uniformly Disruptive to Children's Educational Attainment
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Brand, Jennie E. Moore, Ravaris L. Song, Xi Xie, Yu |
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Parental Divorce is not Uniformly Disruptive to Children's Educational Attainment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 116,15 (9 April 2019): 7266-7271. Also: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/15/7266 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: National Academy of Sciences (NAS), United States Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Divorce; Educational Attainment; Family Income; Parental Influences; Parental Marital Status Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While parental divorce is generally associated with unfavorable outcomes for children, it does not follow that every divorce is equally bad for the children it affected. We find that parental divorce lowers the educational attainment of children who have a low likelihood of their parents' divorcing. For these children, divorce is an unexpected shock to an otherwise-privileged childhood. However, we find no impact of parents' divorcing on the education of children who have a high likelihood of a divorce occurring. Disadvantaged children of high-risk marriages may anticipate or otherwise accommodate to the dissolution of their parents' marriage. Social discourse and policy aimed at promoting marital stability among disadvantaged families, for whom unfortunate events are common, are misguided. |
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Brand, Jennie E., Ravaris L. Moore, Xi Song and Yu Xie. "Parental Divorce is not Uniformly Disruptive to Children's Educational Attainment." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 116,15 (9 April 2019): 7266-7271.
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