Paternal unemployment during childhood: causal effects on youth worklessness and educational attainment

Steffen Müller, Regina Riphahn and Caroline Schwientek
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Steffen Mueller

Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, vol. 69, issue 1, 213-238

Abstract: Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2012), we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labour market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment does not seem to causally affect the outcomes of sons. In contrast, it increases both daughters’ worklessness and educational attainment. We test the robustness of the results and explore potential explanations.

JEL-codes: C21 C26 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: Paternal Unemployment During Childhood: Causal Effects on Youth Worklessness and Educational Attainment (2016)
Working Paper: Paternal unemployment during childhood: causal effects on youth worklessness and educational attainment (2014)
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