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Demand for informal caregiving and human capital accumulation: Evidence from elderly deaths in Senegal

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This paper uses original panel data from Senegal to evaluate the effect of co-residence with elderly individuals on the educational attainment of female children. To identify this effect, I exploit the deaths of elderly co-residents which occur during the study period in an empirical strategy which relies on triple-differences with child fixed-effects. I show that an event of elderly death is associated with 23% additional education completed over a period of 4 years by affected girls. I present evidence that changes in demand for informal caregiving among older female children within the household are one of the mechanisms at play. These results highlight the importance of female teenagers in caregiving activities and suggest that policies that increase the availability of formal care for the elderly could reduce gender inequalities in education in contexts similar to Senegal.

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  • THIVILLON, Thomas, 2022. "Demand for informal caregiving and human capital accumulation: Evidence from elderly deaths in Senegal," SocArXiv m8k6b_v1, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:m8k6b_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/m8k6b_v1
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