Replication data for: Parental Job Loss and Children's Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from 7 Million Fathers' Layoffs

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Project Citation:

Hilger, Nathaniel G. Replication data for: Parental Job Loss and Children’s Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from 7 Million Fathers’ Layoffs. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113650V1

Project Description

Summary: How do parental layoffs and their large attendant income losses affect children's long-term outcomes? This question has proven difficult to answer due to the endogeneity of parental layoffs. I overcome this problem by exploiting the timing of 7 million fathers' layoffs when children are age 12-29 in administrative data for the United States. Layoffs dramatically reduce family income but only slightly reduce college enrollment, college quality, and early career earnings. These effects are consistent with a weak estimated propensity to spend on college out of marginal parental income. I find that larger effects based on firm closures stem from selection.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
      I24 Education and Inequality
      I26 Returns to Education
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      J63 Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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