The Long-run Impact of Orphanhood

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced and re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beegle, Kathleen, De Weerdt, Joachim, Dercon, Stefan
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
HIV
SEX
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/09/8291130/long-run-impact-orphanhood
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7353