PSID Seminar Series: A Dynamic Evaluation of Parental Marriage and Children’s Outcomes
Presenter: Emilio Borghesan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
When:
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
12:00 – 1:00pm (EDT)
Where:
1450 ISR-Thompson
426 Thompson St., Ann Arbor
Join via Zoom:
Zoom link
Abstract:
In 2019, over forty percent of babies born in the United States were born to a single mother. A large literature documents an association between single motherhood and reduced educational attainment for children. Less, however, is known about how marital formation and dissolution affects the dynamic accumulation of skills through childhood and adolescence. This paper develops a unified dynamic treatment effects framework to evaluate how the timing of marriage formation and separation affect the development of children’s cognitive skills. The model is estimated on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement.