The economics of grief

Gerard van den Berg, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström ()

No 2012:23, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit the longitudinal dimension of the data and deal with a range of selection issues. We distinguish between effects on labor and various non-labor income components and we consider patterns over time. We find that labor market effects are persistent.

Keywords: Bereavement; labor supply; child mortality; depression; sickness absenteeism; employment; marriage; death; divorce; mental health; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 I11 I12 J12 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2012-12-04
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Published as van den Berg, Gerard J., Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström, 'The economics of grief' in The Economic Journal, 2017, pages 1794-1832.

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