Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279065 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16367
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the stages of childhood at which parental job loss is most consequential for their child's education. Using Danish administrative data linking parents experiencing plant closures to their children, we compare end-of-school outcomes to matched peers and to closures hitting after school completion age. Parental job loss disproportionally reduces test taking, scores, and high school enrolment among children exposed during infancy (age 0-1). Effects are largest for low-income families and low-achieving children. The causal chain from job loss to education likely works through reduced family income. Maternal time investment partially offsets the effect of reduced income.
Subjects: 
parental labor market shocks
intergenerational mobility
child development
JEL: 
J13
D10
I24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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