PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gimenez, Lea
AU  - Chou, Shin-Yi
AU  - Liu, Jin-Tan
AU  - Liu, Jin-Long
TI  - Parental Loss and Children’s Well-Being
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.48.4.1035
DP  - 2013 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 1035--1071
VI  - 48
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/4/1035.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/4/1035.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2013 Oct 02; 48
AB  - This paper identifies the effects of parental death on children’s well-being using six administrative data sets from Taiwan. Information collected at different points in children’s lives and detailed parental mortality records are used to show that parental death has significant long-term implications for human capital accumulation: the quality of education of high income children is significantly reduced; the impact of a father’s death on his son’s probability of acquiring higher education increases with income; children are more likely to substitute an income earning occupation in place of higher education; low-income girls are also more likely to marry during their teenage years.