Orphanhood and the long-run impact on children

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes, in a region of Northwestern Tanzania. We study a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced and reinterviewed as adults in 2004. A large proportion, 19 percent...

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Main Authors: Beegle, K, De Weerdt, J, Dercon, S
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: 2007
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