Powdthavee Nattavudh, Vernoit James
Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom ; Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
Labour Econ. 2013 Oct 1;24:253-263. doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2013.09.008.
Using a unique longitudinal data of British youths we estimate how adolescents' overall happiness is related to parents' exposure to unemployment. Our within-child estimates suggest that parental job loss when the child was relatively young has a positive influence on children's overall happiness. However, this positive association became either strongly negative or statistically insignificant as the child grew older. The estimated effects of parental job loss on children's happiness also appear to be unrelated to its effect on family income, parent-child interaction, and children's school experience. Together these findings offer new psychological evidence of unemployment effects on children's livelihood.
利用英国青少年独特的纵向数据,我们估计了青少年的总体幸福感与父母失业经历之间的关系。我们对孩子个体内部的估计表明,孩子相对年幼时父母失业对孩子的总体幸福感有积极影响。然而,随着孩子长大,这种正相关关系要么变得非常消极,要么在统计上不显著。父母失业对孩子幸福感的估计影响似乎也与其对家庭收入、亲子互动和孩子学校经历的影响无关。这些研究结果共同提供了关于失业对儿童生活影响的新的心理学证据。