Orphans and schooling in Africa: A longitudinal analysis
Open Access
- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Demography
- Vol. 44 (1), 35-57
- https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0002
Abstract
AIDS deaths could have a major impact on economic development by affecting the human capital accumulation of the next generation. We estimate the impact of parent death on primary school participation using an unusual five-year panel data set of over 20,000 Kenyan children. There is a substantial decrease in school participation following a parent death and a smaller drop before the death (presumably due to pre-death morbidity). Estimated impacts are smaller in specifications without individual fixed effects, suggesting that estimates based on cross-sectional data are biased toward zero. Effects are largest for children whose mothers died and, in a novel finding, for those with low baseline academic performance.Keywords
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