%0 Report
        %A Proto, Eugenio
%A Sgroi, Daniel
%A Oswald, Andrew J.
        %T Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4755
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4755
        %X We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background. We also measure student achievement in a randomized-trial productivity task. Our results seem both of scientific interest and of potential interest to parents. This study finds no evidence that students suffer after parental divorce
        %K divorce
%K experimental economics
%K happiness
%K well-being
%K labor productivity