Job Loss at Home: Children's School Performance during the Great Recession in Spain. CEP Discussion Paper No. 1364

Autor/in	Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer
Institution	London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom), Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
Titel	Job Loss at Home: Children's School Performance during the Great Recession in Spain. CEP Discussion Paper No. 1364
Quelle	(2015), (50 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	2042-2695
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Economic Climate; Job Layoff; Parents; Academic Achievement; Parent Child Relationship; Unemployment; Tenure; Statistical Analysis; Children; Adolescents; Fathers; Mothers; Gender Differences; Spain (Barcelona) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wirtschaftslage; Beurlaubung; Eltern; Schulleistung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Arbeitslosigkeit; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Statistische Analyse; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Mother; Mutter; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	This paper studies the effect of parental job loss on children's school performance during the Great Recession in Spain, using an original panel dataset for students observed since the beginning of the crisis in a school in the province of Barcelona. By using fixed effects, this paper is more likely to deal with the problem of selection into troubled firms which is prevalent in the literature. Fixed effect estimates show that students experience a negative and significant decrease on average grades of about 13% of a standard deviation after father's job loss. The impact of paternal job loss is not homogeneous across students, but it is largely concentrated among children whose fathers suffer long unemployment spells after job loss and students in already disadvantaged families in terms of the father's education level. These results suggest that paternal job loss is a mechanism through which further inequalities might develop during and after a deep economic crisis. The following are appended: (1) The impact of parental job loss on grades. A simple theoretical framework; and (2) More details on the data. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/2/04