Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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970849 | The Journal of Socio-Economics | 2006 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
This paper employs recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between youths living in intact and non-intact families, holding many other potential determinants of well-being constant using ordered probit regressions. The main finding of this study is that living in a non-intact family has not the hypothesised large negative effect on child well-being.
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Authors
Rainer Winkelmann,