published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 197-208
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.
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