Orphanhood and critical periods in children's human capital formation. Long-run evidence from North-Western Tanzania.

Autor/inn/en	Hagen, Jens; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trofimenko, Natalia
Titel	Orphanhood and critical periods in children's human capital formation. Long-run evidence from North-Western Tanzania.
Quelle	Kiel: Kiel Inst. for the World Economy (2010), 32 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Kiel working paper. 1649
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Kind; Gesundheit; Bildungsinvestition; Investition; Arbeitspapier; Allein erziehender Elternteil; Tansania
Abstract	Losing a parent is a trauma that has consequences for human capital formation. Does it matter at what age this trauma occurs? Using longitudinal data from the Kagera region in Tanzania that span thirteen years from 1991-2004, we find considerable impact heterogeneity across age at bereavement, but less so for the death of opposite-sex parents. In terms of long-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most. Maternal bereavement does not fit into this pattern as it affects educational attainment of younger and older children in a similar way. The generally strong interaction between age at parental death and sex of the late parent suggests that the preferences of the surviving parent partly protect same-sex children from orphanhood's detrimental effects on human capital accumulation.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/1