Journal Article
Does Leaving Home Make You Poor? Evidence from 13 European Countries
Authors
Publication date
16 Sep 2007
Abstract
This paper examines the extent to which the relationship between leaving home and entry into poverty among young people is causal: that is, how far poverty entry is the result of leaving home, rather than arising from heterogeneity or selection. Using propensity score matching, we estimate the effect of home-leaving on entry into poverty and deprivation, with data from the European Community Household Panel. We find that leaving home does have a causal effect on poverty entry, particularly in Scandinavian countries; cross-national differences are partly, but not fully, explained by differences in destinations on leaving home.
Published in
European Journal of Population
Volume and page numbers
23 , 315 -338
ISSN
16
Links
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1572-9885/
Notes
Not held ASL. Copy index notes from working paper.
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