We use high-quality administrative data from Austria to credibly identify the causal effect of parental death on … daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference …-in-differences research design. Parental death has no statistically significant effect on daughters' fertility, even in situations where the …

; however, the average variance of age of death calculated from subjective mortality tables is 6.2%-14.4% lower than that from … lower value on delaying claiming when they have greater confidence in their ability to forecast their age of death. But the …

Nearly everyone experiences the death of a parent in adulthood, but little is known about the effects of parental death …' earnings drop by 2% in the fifth year after parental death, while daughters' earnings drop by 3% during the same period … comparatively larger drop (around 4%) in earnings after parental death due to the loss of informal childcare, a factor that …