Effects of Parental Divorce on Teenage Children's Risk Behaviors: Incidence and Persistence Academic Article

abstract

• 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. It is generally difficult to separate the effects of divorce from selection when analyzing the effects of parental divorce on childrens risk behaviors. We used propensity score matching and longitudinal data methods to estimate the effects of parents divorce on their childrens binge drinking, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, marijuana use, and hard drug use. The children were between 12 and 18years old in the first survey and between 18 and 24years old in the second survey. Our results suggest that parental divorce significantly increased the probability of risk behaviors in their children. Moreover, many of these adverse impacts persisted over time, especially among teenage girls.

authors

• Nayga, Rodolfo
• Wu, Ximing

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF FAMILY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES

altmetric score

• 5.08

author list (cited authors)

• Gustavsen, G. W., Nayga, R., & Wu, X.

citation count

• 19

complete list of authors

• Gustavsen, Geir Waehler||Nayga, Rodolfo M Jr||Wu, Ximing

publication date

• September 2016

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

keywords

• Children's Outcome
• Divorce
• Propensity Score
• Random Effects Probit

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s10834-015-9460-5

start page

• 474

end page

• 487

volume

• 37

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-015-9460-5

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being