Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments

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• dc.contributor.author Fallesen, Peter
• dc.contributor.author Passaretta, Giampiero
• dc.contributor.author Skovgaard Jensen, Simon
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-07-16T07:24:17Z
• dc.date.available 2025-07-16T07:24:17Z
• dc.date.issued 2025
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 12-06-2025
• dc.description.abstract We study whether the educational disadvantage of children from households where parents have dissolved their union is due to selection or deteriorating non-school environments and whether exposure to school environments compensates or exacerbates such disadvantage. We apply a differential exposure approach (DEA) to Danish population data collecting public-school reading comprehension tests. The approach exploits variation in children’s birth dates and test administration dates to decompose children’s learning as the product of joint exposure to school and non-school environments. We find that children experiencing parental separation have 5–7 per cent lower test scores, with lower learning returns to non-school environments, and diminishing learning outcomes proportional to time spent in separated households. Critically, school appears to neither mitigate nor exacerbate these achievement gaps, suggesting that degrading of non-school environment post-separation primarily impacts children’s learning.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Fallesen P, Passaretta G, Skovgaard S. Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments. Eur Sociol Rev. 2025 Jun 12. DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaf026
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf026
• dc.identifier.issn 0266-7215
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70919
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Oxford University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof European Sociological Review. 2025 Jun 12
• dc.rights © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.other Rendiment escolarca
• dc.subject.other Separació conjugalca
• dc.subject.other Lectura -- Comprensióca
• dc.subject.other Escoles públiquesca
• dc.title Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environmentsen
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