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Propensity of Parental Divorce and the Educational Attainment of Children Honors Thesis (BA), Division of Economics, A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration and McAnulty College of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University, December 2010 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Division of Economics, A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration and McAnulty College of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Divorce; Educational Attainment; Educational Outcomes; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Parental Influences; Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and survival analysis, this research answers the question "What effect does the propensity of parental divorce have on the educational attainment of children?" To the extent that divorce influences children's educational attainment, this topic is of interest to economists because of the effect of education on worker productivity. Survival analysis is beneficial because, unlike previous research on the relationship between divorce and children's education, it allows for the inclusion of right-censored observations. I find that the hazard of parental divorce when looking at a mother's single spell of marriage is not a significant indicator of children's educational attainment. |
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Vicinie, Laura. "Propensity of Parental Divorce and the Educational Attainment of Children." Honors Thesis (BA), Division of Economics, A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration and McAnulty College of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University, December 2010. |