Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192499 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 517
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Using Norwegian register data we estimate how children's school performance is affected by their parents' exposure to plant closure. Fathers' exposure leads to a substantial decline in children's graduation-year grade point average, but only in municipalities with mediocre-performing job markets. The negative effect does not appear to be driven by a reduction in father's income and employment, an increase in parental divorce, or the trauma of relocating. In contrast, mothers' exposure leads to improved school performance. Our findings appear to be consistent with sociological "role theories," with parents unable to fully shield their children from the stress caused by threats to the father's traditional role as breadwinner, and mothers responding to job loss by allocating greater attention towards child rearing.
Subjects: 
educational outcomes
downsizing
job loss
layoffs
plant closure
JEL: 
I20
J63
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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