The economics of grief

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2012:23

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Analysis of Health Care Markets ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
• Subject: Bereavement ; labor supply ; child mortality ; depression ; sickness absenteeism ; employment ; marriage ; death ; divorce ; mental health ; fertility ; Kindersterblichkeit ; Depressive Störung ; Arbeitsangebot ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): van den Berg, Gerard J. ; Lundborg, Petter ; Vikström, Johan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82274
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET