Parental unemployment and children's school performance

Anna Öster ()
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Anna Öster: Konjunkturinstitutet, Postal: Box 3116, 103 62 Stockholm, Sweden

No 2006:5, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level data for all children completing lower secondary school in Sweden in 1990 directly moving on to three years of upper secondary school. We control for family and individual heterogeneity by means of lower secondary school GPA. The huge variation in Swedish unemployment during the beginning of the 1990s provides an ideal setting for testing the hypothesis that parental unemployment affects children’s school performance. Our results indicate that having an unemployed father has a negative effect on children’s school performance while having an unemployed mother has a positive effect.

Keywords: School performance; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 I21 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2006-05-22
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-lab, nep-mac, nep-soc and nep-ure
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