The impact of parental death on child outcomes: evidence from Ethiopia

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Parental death is one of the many risks faced by children in poor communities, especially in Africa in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. While the death of a parent at any age is a significant and distressing event, Young Lives research in Ethiopia finds that the age the child is when a parent dies is important for outcomes later on. If a parent dies early on in a child’s life (between ages 0 and 6) then the death per se does not seem to affect children’s health, education, sense of optim...

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Authors: Camfield, L; Himaz, R; Murray, H

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Young Lives Publisher's website
• Series: Young Lives Policy Brief
• Place of publication: http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/policy-briefs
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• Paper number: 7
• Language: English
• Keywords: Ethiopia; Children; poverty; Young Lives; policy
• Subjects: Children and youth; Families