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| Title: | | Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind  |
| Authors: | | Booth, Alison L. Tamura, Yuji |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4381 |
| Abstract: | | Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and the mother has not been absent. Our results indicate that paternal temporary absence increases nonhousework labor supply by his son. The longer the absence of the father, the larger the impact. One additional month of paternal temporary absence increases a son's nonhousework labor supply by approximately one week. However, a daughter's nonhousework labor supply is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school attendance or education-related household expenditures. |
| Subjects: | | Parental absence temporary migration schooling human capital investment child labor Vietnam VLSS |
| JEL: | | I22 O15 P36 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-200910085859 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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