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Schooling and Parental Death

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Paul Gertler (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley & NBER)
David I. Levine (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)
Minnie Ames (Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley)

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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 semi-nonparametric 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 1994-96. 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 intra-household allocation and find little differential treatment based on the gender of the child or the deceased parent.

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Date of creation: 25 Mar 2003
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I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
O1 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
O12 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis

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