Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis

David Evans and Edward Miguel

Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

Abstract: AIDS deaths could have a major impact on economic development by affecting the human capital accumulation of the next generation. We estimate the impact of parent death on primary school participation using an unusual five-year panel data set of over 20,000 Kenyan children. There is a substantial decrease in school participation following a parent death, and a smaller drop before the death (presumably due to pre-death morbidity). Estimated impacts are smaller in specifications without individual fixed effects, suggesting that estimates based on cross-sectional data are biased toward zero. Effects are largest for children whose mothers died, and those with low baseline academic performance.

Keywords: Parent death; education; HIV/AIDS; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-03-01
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Journal Article: Orphans and schooling in africa: a longitudinal analysis (2007)
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