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Impact of Parental Death in Middle Childhood and Adolescence on Child Outcomes
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This paper investigates whether the death of a parent during middle childhood (ages 7–8 to 11–12) has different effects on a child's schooling and psychosocial outcomes when compared with death during adolescence (ages 11–12 to 14–15) in Ethiopia. The data come from three rounds of the Young Lives longitudinal survey, conducted in 2002, 2006 and 2009, of a sample of around 850 children across 20 sentinel sites in Ethiopia. The results show that when a child's mother dies in middle childhood, ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Journal:
- Journal of African Economics Journal website
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 463-490
- Publication date:
- 2013-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1464-3723
- ISSN:
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0963-8024
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:10631
- Deposit date:
- 2015-03-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Himaz, R
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of African Economies following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/463.full.pdf+html .
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