Schooling and parental death

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gertler, P; Levine, DI; Ames, M
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/003465304323023769
• 发表日期: 2004-02
• 页码: 211-225
• 关键词: family-structure; propensity score; CHILDREN; GENDER; income; determinants; attainment; insurance; mothers; causal

摘要

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 seminonparametric 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.