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Parental Divorce and Students’ Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Data *
Author(s) -
SanzdeGaldeano Anna,
Vuri Daniela
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2006.00199.x
Subject(s) - endogeneity , psychology , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , longitudinal data , longitudinal study , national longitudinal surveys , demography , demographic economics , economics , sociology , econometrics , medicine , communication , pathology
In this article, we analysed data from the National Education Longitudinal Study to investigate whether experiencing parental divorce during adolescence had an adverse impact on students’ performance on standardized tests. To account for the potential endogeneity of parental divorce we employed double and triple difference models that rely on observing teenagers from intact and divorced backgrounds before and after the divorce occurs. We found that parental divorce does not negatively affect teenagers’ cognitive skills. Our results also suggest that cross‐sectional estimates overstate the detrimental effect of parental divorce.