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Death and Divorce: The Long‐Term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents

Miles Corak^1,2

¹ Statistics Canada · ² Carleton University

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.

DOI

10.1086/322078

Volume

19 (3)

Pages

682-715

Language

en

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