Parental Job Loss and Children's School Performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark
• 署名单位: Universitetet i Stavanger; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6527
• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdr002
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1462-1489
• 关键词: swedish evidence; unemployment; HEALTH; displacement; income; bad; attainment; disability; mobility

摘要

Using Norwegian register data, we estimate how children's school performance is affected by their parents' exposure to plant closure. Our estimates suggest that paternal job loss has a negative effect on children's school performance. In contrast, maternal job loss is associated with a non-significant increase in school performance. Importantly, the negative effect of paternal job loss appears largely unrelated to its effect on father's income, father's employment status, a shift in maternal time towards employment, marital dissolution, and residential relocation. A disparate effect of job loss across fathers and mothers is, however, consistent with recent empirical studies documenting that the mental distress experienced by displaced workers is generally more severe for men than women.