Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
October 15, 2013
Summary:
Using a unique longitudinal data of British youths we estimate how adolescents' overall happiness is related to parents' exposure to unemployment. Our within-child estimates suggest that parental job loss when the child was relatively young has a positive influence on children's overall happiness. However, this positive association became either strongly negative or statistically insignificant as the child grew older. The estimated effects of parental job loss on children's happiness also appear to be unrelated to its effect on family income, parent–child interaction, and children's school experience. Together these findings offer new psychological evidence of unemployment effects on children's livelihood.
Published in
Labour Economics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 24 , p.253 -263
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2013.09.008
ISSN
9275371
Subjects
Notes
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