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Does Growing up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt?
Abstract
It is widely recognized that children who grow up without a biological parent do worse, on average, than other children. However, because having a single parent is highly correlated with many other socioeconomic disadvantages, the negative outcomes might be caused by something beyond the parent's absence. Econometric tests using a variety of background controls and parental death as an exogenous cause of absence, show little evidence that a parent's presence during childhood affects economic well being in adulthood. The two exceptions are that living without a mother impacts girls' cognitive performance while having a father die lowers sons' chances of marriage.
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- Authors
- Lang, K., & Zagorsky, J. L.
- Venue
- The Journal of Human Resources
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 2001
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 253
- ISSN
- 0022-166X (ISSN-L)
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- W120020009
- Cited by
- 194
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- FWCI
- 12.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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