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Author: Kane, John
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1. Kane, John
Spizman, Lawrence M.
An Update of the Educational Attainment Model for a Minor Child
Journal of Forensic Economics 14,2 (Spring-Summer 2001): 155-166.
Also: http://www.nafe.net/NAFE%20Information/Journal%20of%20Forens ic%20Economics.aspx
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Association of Forensic Economics
Keyword(s): Children; Educational Attainment; Injuries; Modeling, Probit

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An ordered probit educational attainment model, used to predict the lost earning capacity of a wrongfully injured minor child, was created by Spizman and Kane (1992) and expanded by Gill and Foley (1996). The Spizman and Kane study was limited by its reliance on a sample (NLS72) that did not contain data on high school dropouts, while the Gill and Foley study was limited by censored observations on completed educational attainment due to the relatively young age of the sample (NLS79) used in their study. The current study re-estimates the educational attainment model using six additional years of information on educational attainment for NLS79 participants. This additional sample information makes it possible to provide more reliable estimate of completed educational attainment.
Bibliography Citation
Kane, John and Lawrence M. Spizman. "An Update of the Educational Attainment Model for a Minor Child." Journal of Forensic Economics 14,2 (Spring-Summer 2001): 155-166.
2. Kane, John
Spizman, Lawrence M.
Rodgers, James
Gaskins, Rick
The Effect of the Loss of a Parent on the Future Earnings of a Minor Child.
Eastern Economic Journal 36,3 (Summer 2010): 370-390.
Also: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/journal/v36/n3/abs/eej201025a.html
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Keyword(s): Earnings; Educational Attainment; Fathers and Sons; Fathers, Absence; Mothers and Daughters; Parents, Single

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We quantify the effect of a parent's absence on a child's future earnings. A parent's absence because of separation or divorce reduces a child's lifetime earnings between 3 and 12 percent. Lifetime educational attainment is adversely affected by between 2 and 4 percent if a parent of the same gender as the child dies (a smaller impact than if absence is because of separation or divorce). No such adverse effect is found if a girl's father or a boy's mother dies. We conclude that it is sensible that lifetime earnings loss to children not be estimated in a parent's wrongful death case.
Bibliography Citation
Kane, John, Lawrence M. Spizman, James Rodgers and Rick Gaskins. "The Effect of the Loss of a Parent on the Future Earnings of a Minor Child. ." Eastern Economic Journal 36,3 (Summer 2010): 370-390.