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Title: The Effect of the Loss of a Parent on the Future Earnings of a Minor Child.
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1. 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.
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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.