published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 69(3), 321-338
In this paper we analyse data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to
investigate whether experiencing parental divorce during adolescence reduces measured
cognitive ability. To account for the potential endogeneity of parental divorce we employ a
difference-in-differences model that relies on observing teenagers' outcomes before and after
divorce. We find that parental divorce does not negatively affect teenagers' cognitive
development. Our results also suggest that cross-section estimates overstate the detrimental
effect of parental divorce.
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