Do Parental Divorce and Displacement Decrease Children's Education? Evidence by Using Taiwan Administrative Dat
2012/08/21
研討會日期 : 2012-08-21
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Yenchien Chen
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Yenchien Chen received her Ph.D. in Economics from National Taiwan University in 2009. She is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Economics at National Chi Nan University. Her research field is in applied microeconomics, labor economics and household economics.
演講摘要 : This paper uses an unique data based on four administrative data sets of Taiwan, including birth registry, divorce registry, unemployment insurance payment records and college entrance test records, to estimate the various impacts of parental income shocks (induced by divorce and involuntary job loss) on children's education. Our identification strategy is employing family fixed-effect models to address the endogenous problems caused by unobserved family characteristics. We discover that parental divorce has adverse impact on children's outcome, but the impact of parental displacement is little. The detrimental effect of parental involuntary job loss is only investigated for boys. In addition, we suggest that cross-sectional estimations are mostly spurious and overstate the negative effect of parental income shock.
