Schooling and Parental Death

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

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Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: I1 I2 J1 O1 O12 I21 D13 D12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-03-25
Note: 38 pages, Acrobat .pdf
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Working Paper: Schooling and Parental Death (2003)
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