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The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami

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  • Ava Gail Gas
  • Elizabeth Frankenberg
  • Wayan Suriastini
  • Duncan Thomas

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Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved, factors that affect child well-being. Population-representative longitudinal data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are used to identify the impact of parental deaths on the well-being of children who were age 9 through 17 years old at the time of the tsunami. Exploiting the unanticipated nature of parental death due to the tsunami in combination with measuring well-being of the same children before and after the tsunami, models that include child fixed effects are estimated to isolate the causal effect of parental death.[BREAD Working Paper No. 393]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/393.pdf].

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  • Ava Gail Gas & Elizabeth Frankenberg & Wayan Suriastini & Duncan Thomas, 2013. "The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami," Working Papers id:5448, eSocialSciences.
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    Keywords

    Tsunami; Orphans; Well-being; Family; Children; children Indonesia; well-being; child; parental death;
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    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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