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...
Main Authors: | Beegle, Kathleen, De Weerdt, Joachim, Dercon, Stefan |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5400 |
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