Parental separation and children’s education in a comparative perspective: Does the burden disappear when separation is more common?
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUNDParental breakup has, on average, a net negative effect on children's education.However, it is unclear whether this negative effect changes when parental separation becomes more common. OBJECTIVEWe studied the variations in the effect of parental separation on children's chances of obtaining tertiary education across cohorts and countries with varying divorce rates. METHODWe applied country and cohort fixed-effect models as well as random-effect models to data from the first wave of the Generations and Gender Survey, complemented by selected macro-level indicators (divorce rate and educational expansion). RESULTSCountry fixed-effect logistic regressions show that the negative effect of experiencing parental separation is stronger in more-recent birth cohorts.Random-intercept linear probability models confirm that the negative effect of parental breakup is significantly stronger when divorce is more common. CONCLUSIONSThe results support the low-conflict family dissolution hypothesis, which explains the trend by a rising proportion of low-conflict breakups.A child from a dissolving low-
Source: Demographic Research
Institutions: Masaryk University, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2569950776