Research
Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis
David K. Evans and Edward Miguel
2007
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human Capital
AIDS deaths could have a major impact on economic development by affecting the human capital accumulation of the next generation. We estimate the impact of parent death on primary school participation using an unusual five-year panel data set of over 20,000 Kenyan children. There is a substantial decrease in school participation following a parent death and a smaller drop before the death (presumably due to pre-death morbidity). Estimated impacts are smaller in specifications without individual fixed effects, suggesting that estimates based on cross-sectional data are biased toward zero. Effects are largest for children whose mothers died and, in a novel finding, for those with low baseline academic performance.
Health, Education, and Economic DevelopmentBook ChapterAfrican DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalOther2005
Methodologies to Evaluate Early Childhood Development ProgramsPublished PaperHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology2007
Impacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income CountriesPublished PaperAfrican DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology2017
Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment ExternalitiesPublished PaperAfrican DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology2004