The literature on father absence is frequently criticized for its use of cross-sectional data and
methods that fail to take account of possible omitted variable bias and reverse causality. We …

Previous research has documented that children who do not live with both biological parents
fare somewhat worse on a variety of outcomes than those who do. In this article, which is the …

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OF HAPPINESS Page 3 Page 4 The Origins Of happiness The Science of Well-Being over the …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of
individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems …

This paper is produced alongside Innocenti Report Card 7 Child Well-being in Rich
Countries. It provides more detail on how the indicators were chosen for the Report Card …

Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this
fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives …

Previous research has neither fully examined family structure across the life course nor
considered increasing variation in family types. Using data from the National Longitudinal …

This paper analyses whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental
separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or due mainly to selection. We …

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this study examines the relationship
between several outcomes in early adulthood (eg education, inactivity, earnings and health) …

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a non-intact family in
Germany. We find that this experience is associated with worse outcomes according to …