Does Leaving Home Make You Poor? Evidence from 13 European Countries

Publication type

Journal Article

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Publication date

September 16, 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

Volume: 23 , p.315 -338

ISSN

1686577

Link

- http://www.springerlink.com/content/1572-9885/

Notes

Not held ASL. Copy index notes from working paper.


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