An empirical researcher decides to identify the effect of parental divorce on children's high school graduation by comparing children whose parents divorced with children whose parents remained married,controlling for other observable characteristics.This empirical approach can best be characterized as:

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The approach described involves comparing different groups at a single point in time while controlling for other variables, which is characteristic of cross-sectional regression analysis.

An Empirical Researcher Decides to Identify the Effect of Parental