Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths

Arbeitspapier

This paper uses 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 894

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
• Subject: child welfare ; educational attainment ; happiness ; German Socio-Economic Panel ; Ehe ; Jugendliche ; Lebensstandard ; Lebensqualität ; Schätzung ; Deutschland ; Lebenszufriedenheit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Winkelmann, Rainer
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20133
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET