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Schooling and Parental Death
Abstract
Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and seminonpara-metric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school enrollment, is affected by a parent's recent death. We analyze data from 600,000 households from Indonesia's National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) during 1994–1996. We find a parent's recent death has a large effect on a child's enrollment. We also use this shock to test several theories of intrahousehold allocation and find little differential treatment based on the gender of the child or the deceased parent.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gertler, P., Levine, D. I., & Ames, M.
- Venue
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2004-02
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 211-225
- ISSN
- 0034-6535 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9142
- OpenAlex
- W2129344386
- Cited by
- 211
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 22.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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