Arbeitspapier

When It Hurts the Most: Timing of Parental Job Loss and a Child's Education

We investigate the stages of childhood at which parental job loss is most consequential for their child's education. Using Danish administrative data linking parents experiencing plant closures to their children, we compare end-of-school outcomes to matched peers and to closures hitting after school completion age. Parental job loss disproportionally reduces test taking, scores, and high school enrolment among children exposed during infancy (age 0-1). Effects are largest for low-income families and low-achieving children. The causal chain from job loss to education likely works through reduced family income. Maternal time investment partially offsets the effect of reduced income.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16367

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Household Behavior: General
Education and Inequality
Thema
parental labor market shocks
intergenerational mobility
child development

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bingley, Paul
Cappellari, Lorenzo
Ovidi, Marco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bingley, Paul
  • Cappellari, Lorenzo
  • Ovidi, Marco
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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