RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Parental Loss and Children’s Well-Being
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 1035
OP 1071
DO 10.3368/jhr.48.4.1035
VO 48
IS 4
A1 Gimenez, Lea
A1 Chou, Shin-Yi
A1 Liu, Jin-Tan
A1 Liu, Jin-Long
YR 2013
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/4/1035.abstract
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.