Intergenerational Scars: The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life

Suspended from Work and School? Impacts of Layoff Events and Unemployment Insurance on Student Disciplinary Incidence

“…Prior work has documented that mass layoff events influence student test scores (Ananat et al, 2011), college attendance (Foote and Grosz, 2020;Hubbard, 2018), and field of study choices (Acton, 2021;Weinstein, 2020). A related line of literature documents the direct negative effect of parental job loss on childhood outcomes, including infant (Lindo, 2011) and child (Page et al, 2019;Schaller and Zerpa, 2019;Ubaldi and Picchio, 2023) health, and test scores (Stevens and Schaller, 2011).…”