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SUBMITTER: Brand JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6462058 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brand Jennie E JE Moore Ravaris R Song Xi X Xie Yu Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190326 15
Children whose parents divorce tend to have worse educational outcomes than children whose parents stay married. However, not all children respond identically to their parents divorcing. We focus on how the impact of parental divorce on children's education varies by how likely or unlikely divorce was for those parents. We find a significant negative effect of parental divorce on educational attainment, particularly college attendance and completion, among children whose parents were unlikely to ...[more]