Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis

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 de...

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Published inDemography Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 35 - 57
Main Authors Evans, David K., Miguel, Edward
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Population Association of America 01.02.2007
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Academic Achievement
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - economics
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - mortality
Age
AIDS
Bias
Child
Children
Children & youth
Cross-Sectional Studies
Datasets
Death
Demography
Economic Development
Economic impact
Education
Educational Measurement
Educational Status
Elementary schools
Enrollments
Families & family life
Family income
Female
Foster Home Care - statistics & numerical data
Health Surveys
HIV
Households
Human Capital
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Kenya
Longitudinal studies
Male
Orphans
Pandemics
Panel data
Parent-Child Relations
Parental death
Parents
Prospective Studies
Regression analysis
Residence Characteristics
School age children
School finance
Schools
Schools - statistics & numerical data
Schools - trends
Socioeconomic factors
Student participation
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Test scores
Time Factors
Kenya
Africa
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0070-3370
1533-7790
DOI:10.1353/dem.2007.0002