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Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood

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  • Øystein Kravdal
  • Emily Grundy

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This study aimed to assess whether children’s age at their parents’ divorce is associated with depression in early and mid-adulthood, as indicated by medication purchase. A sibling comparison method was used to control for unobserved factors shared between siblings. The data were extracted from the Norwegian Population Register and Norwegian Prescription Database and included about 181,000 individuals aged 20–44 who had experienced parental divorce and 636,000 who had not. Controlling for age in 2004, sex, and birth order, children who were aged 15–19 when their parents divorced were 12 per cent less likely to purchase antidepressants as adults in 2004–08 than those experiencing the divorce aged 0–4. The corresponding reduction for those aged 20+ at the time of divorce was 19 per cent. However, the association between age at parental divorce and antidepressant purchases was only evident among women and those whose mothers had low education.

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  • Øystein Kravdal & Emily Grundy, 2019. "Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 73(1), pages 37-56, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:73:y:2019:i:1:p:37-56
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2018.1549747
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    1. Hertegård, Edvin, 2024. "Divorce Law Reform, Family Stability, and Children’s Long-Term Outcomes," SOFI Working Papers in Labour Economics 1/2025, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research.
    2. Yen-Chien Chen & Elliott Fan & Jin-Tan Liu, 2019. "Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child’s Higher Education," NBER Working Papers 25886, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Øystein Kravdal, 2019. "Taking birth year into account when analysing effects of maternal age on child health and other outcomes: The value of a multilevel-multiprocess model compared to a sibling model," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 40(43), pages 1249-1290.
    4. Hertegård, Edvin, 2024. "Divorce law reform, family stability, and children's long-term outcomes," Working Paper Series 2024:11, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
    5. Caroline Berghammer & Torkild Hovde Lyngstad & Anna Matysiak & Francesca Rinesi, 2024. "Is single parenthood increasingly an experience of less-educated mothers? A European comparison over five decades," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 51(34), pages 1059-1094.

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