Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood?

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%, los...

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Main Authors:	Beegle, Kathleen, De Weerdt, Joachim, Dercon, Stefan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Analysis of Education I210 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5400

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spelling	okr-10986-54002021-04-23T14:02:22Z Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood? Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Dercon, Stefan Analysis of Education I210 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 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. 2012-03-30T07:32:38Z 2012-03-30T07:32:38Z 2010 Journal Article Demography 00703370 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5400 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Tanzania
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description	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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author	Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Dercon, Stefan
author_facet	Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Dercon, Stefan
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title	Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood?
title_short	Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood?
title_full	Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood?
title_fullStr	Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood?
title_full_unstemmed	Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood?
title_sort	orphanhood and human capital destruction: is there persistence into adulthood?
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Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is There Persistence into Adulthood?

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