Kathleen, Beegle; Weerdt, Joachim De; Dercon, Stefan - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2007
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 nonorphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced and reinterviewed as adults in 2004. A large proportion, 19...