Are happiness and productivity lower among university students with newly-divorced parents? An experimental approach

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We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background. We also measure student achievement in a randomized-trial productivity task. Our results seem both of scientific interest and of potential interest to parents. This study finds no evidence that students suffer after parental divorce.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4755

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
• Thema: Labor productivity ; divorce ; well-being ; happiness ; experimental economics ; Studierende ; Lebenszufriedenheit ; Arbeitsproduktivität ; Familiensoziologie ; Scheidung ; Test ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Proto, Eugenio ; Sgroi, Daniel ; Oswald, Andrew J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35905
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ