When it hurts the most: timing of parental job loss and a child’s education

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari and Marco Ovidi

No 2023-12, LISER Working Paper Series from Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Abstract: We investigate the stages of childhood at which parental job loss is most consequential for their child’s education. Using Danish administrative data linking parents experiencing plant closures to their children, we compare end-of-school outcomes to matched peers and to closures hitting after school completion age. Parental job loss disproportionally reduces test taking, scores, and high school enrolment among children exposed during infancy (age 0-1). Effects are largest for low-income families and low-achieving children. The causal chain from job loss to education likely works through reduced family income. Maternal time investment partially offsets the effect of reduced income

Keywords: Parental labor market shocks; Intergenerational mobility; Child development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 80 pages
Date: 2023-12
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