Parental Loss and Children’s Well-Being
利用台湾六套行政数据，研究发现父母死亡对儿童人力资本积累有长期影响：高收入家庭子女教育质量显著下降；父亲去世对儿子接受高等教育概率的影响随收入增加而增大；儿童更可能以赚钱职业替代高等教育；低收入女孩更可能在青少年时期结婚。
Abstract This paper identifies the effects of parental death on children’s well-being using six administrative data sets from Taiwan. Information collected at different points in children’s lives and detailed parental mortality records are used to show that parental death has significant long-term implications for human capital accumulation: the quality of education of high income children is significantly reduced; the impact of a father’s death on his son’s probability of acquiring higher education increases with income; children are more likely to substitute an income earning occupation in place of higher education; low-income girls are also more likely to marry during their teenage years.