Death and Divorce: The Long‐Term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents
利用两个准实验（父母死亡和加拿大离婚法变更）估计父母离婚对青少年成年后劳动力市场、婚姻和生育结果的影响，发现离婚子女婚姻更晚且更不稳定，但收入差异不大。
Two quasi-experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult labor market and marital/fertility outcomes of adolescents. These involve individuals experiencing the death of a parent and legislative changes to the Canadian divorce law. Parental loss by death is assumed to be exogenous, the experiences of children with a bereaved background offering a benchmark to assess the endogeneity of parental loss through divorce. Adolescents whose parents divorced put off marriage and, once married, suffer a greater likelihood of marital instability, but their earnings and incomes are not on average much different from others. Copyright 2001 by University of Chicago Press.