The timing of parental unemployment, insurance and children's education.

ABSTRACT: The timing of parental unemployment can impact children's educational transitions. Previous research has mostly examined transitions to higher education, proxying timing in relation to children's age and often focusing on selective populations. We study unemployment's intergenerational effects at multiple stages of the educational career, and define timing relative to important crossroads within and across school years for a broader population of children. Further, we build on suggestive patterns in prior studies and test if and how parental unemployment's effects vary depending on the availability, level, and combination of private insurance (parental wealth) and public insurance (unemployment benefits). We rely on Dutch administrative data on cohorts of students born between 1992 and 199

SUBMITTER: Mari G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11567677 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature