Separating the harmful versus beneficial effects of marital disruptions on children
Abstract
Although a marital disruption can certainly be harmful for some
children, it might be beneficial to other children. Analyses on how
children are affected by marital disruptions typically capture the
average estimated effects (or associations) of a disruption on an
outcome. Thus, the harmful effects of the disruption on some
children are being averaged with the neutral and beneficial
effects on other children. This could mute the estimated effect,
and it could prevent the detection of significant harmful (or
beneficial) effects. Using achievement test scores and an index
of behavioral problems in a first-difference framework, I find
evidence for the standard approach having muted estimated
effects and failing to detect significant effects when the same
data produce significant isolated harmful effects.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2017.1344500
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