The Education Exchange: New Study Highlights Other Ways Divorce is Bad for Children

Children of divorced parents less likely to attend college, more likely to die young

Photo of Wolfgang FrimmelWolfgang Frimmel, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Frimmel’s latest research, which examines the causal effect of parental divorce on students’ long-term outcomes in education.

How does parental divorce affect children’s long-term outcomes?,” co-written with Martin Halla and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, is available now from the Journal of Public Economics.

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