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

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V0
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Dataset
Creator
  • Hilger, Nathaniel G.
Publication Date
2016-07-01
Description

  • Abstract

    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.
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Relations
  • Is supplement to
    DOI: 10.1257/app.20150295 (Text)
Publications
  • Hilger, Nathaniel G. “Parental Job Loss and Children’s Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from 7 Million Fathers’ Layoffs.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8, no. 3 (July 2016): 247–83. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20150295.
    • ID: 10.1257/app.20150295 (DOI)

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