DIVORCE AND THE COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tartari, Melissa
• 署名单位: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12116
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 597-645
• 关键词: parental conflict; household; TECHNOLOGY; decisions; marriage; IMPACT

摘要

Children of divorced parents exhibit lower test scores and educational attainment. Have these correlations a causal interpretation? Parents who divorce may be less likely to invest in their children while together or they may divorce to shield their children from the effects of marital conflict. I study the relationship between children's achievement and the marital status of their parents within a dynamic framework in which partners decide on whether to remain married, how to interact (with or without conflict), and child investments. I then assess whether a child whose parents divorced would have been better off had divorce not occurred.