TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Proto, Eugenio
AU  - Sgroi, Daniel
AU  - Oswald, Andrew J.
        TI  - Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
        PY  - 2010/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4755
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4755
        AB  - 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
        KW  - divorce
KW  - experimental economics
KW  - happiness
KW  - well-being
KW  - labor productivity
        ER  -