Children of Domestic Violence Homes

Through the Freakanomics Blog, I learned of a study by Scott E. Carrell and Mark L. Hoekstra titled Externalities in the Classroom: How Children of Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids. The study indicates that ".... children from troubled families significantly decrease their peers’ reading and math test scores and significantly increase misbehavior of others in the classroom. The effects are heterogeneous across income, race, and gender and appear to work primarily through troubled boys." Read more about the study and find a link to study here.