Parental Separation and Children’s Education in a Comparative Perspective : Does the Burden Disappear When Separation Is More Common?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F17%3A00094627" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/17:00094627 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/3/" target="_blank" >http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/3/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.3" target="_blank" >10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Parental Separation and Children’s Education in a Comparative Perspective : Does the Burden Disappear When Separation Is More Common?

Original language description

Parental breakup has a net negative effect on children’s education. However, it is unclear if this negative effect changes when parental separation becomes more common. We 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. We applied country and cohort fixed-effect 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). Country 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. The 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-conflict family is likely to be negatively affected by family dissolution, whereas a child from a high-conflict dissolving family experiences relief. As divorce becomes more common throughout society and more low-conflict couples separate, more children are negatively affected, and hence the average effect of breakup is more negative. We show a significant variation in the size of the effect of divorce on children’s education; it becomes more negative when divorce is more common.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50402 - Demography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GB14-36154G" target="_blank" >GB14-36154G: Dynamics of change in Czech society</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Demographic Research

ISSN

1435-9871

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

38

Pages from-to

73-110

UT code for WoS article

000391236500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85012927684