Parental job loss and child human capital in the short and long run

Eva Mörk (), Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

No 2019:3, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: We study the effects of parental job loss on children’s health, educational achievement and labor market success as young adults. Past evidence shows mixed results which could be due to small sample sizes and that workers who suffer job loss are a selected group. Using Swedish register data, including more than 140,000 children whose parents were displaced due to workplace closures, and conditioning on a wide set of pretreatment outcomes of both parents and children, we find no effects of parental job loss on childhood health, school performance or outcomes as young adults although parents are negatively affected.

Keywords: Parental unemployment; workplace closure; child health; human capital formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2019-02-18
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