Stevens, Ann Huff; Schaller, Jessamyn - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 2, pp. 289-299
We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and grade retention from the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that a parental job loss increases the probability of children's...