Orphanhood and human capital destruction: is there persistence into adulthood?

نویسندگان

  • Kathleen Beegle
  • Joachim de Weerdt
  • Stefan Dercon
چکیده

This article presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes in a region of northwestern Tanzania. We study a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-1994 who were traced and reinterviewed as adults in 2004. A large proportion, 19%, lost one or more parents before age 15 in this period, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we control for a wide range of child and adult characteristics before orphanhood, as well as community fixed effects. We find that maternal orphanhood has a permanent adverse impact of 2 cm of final height attainment and one year of educational attainment. Expressing welfare in terms of consumption expenditure, the result is a gap of 8.5% compared with similar children whose mothers survived until at least their 15th birthday.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Demography

دوره 47 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010