Parents’ Earnings Response to Youth Suicide: Evidence From New Zealand Administrative Records

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aut.relation.articlenumber111072
aut.relation.endpage111072
aut.relation.journalEconomics Letters
aut.relation.startpage111072
dc.contributor.authorMertz, Mikkel
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Livvy
dc.contributor.authorSkov, Peer Ebbesen
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-24T02:00:47Z
dc.date.available2023-03-24T02:00:47Z
dc.date.copyright2023-03
dc.description.abstractThe loss of a child is one of the most devastating shocks a parent can experience. We provide the first estimates of the direct effect of youth suicide on parental labour earnings. We use mortality data in the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure to identify youth who died from intentional self-harm, and birth records to identify affected parents and their wage and salary information. We graph the parental earnings profiles before and after the suicide event, and construct counterfactual earnings profiles for the affected parents, using a comparison group of parents hit by the same shock in the future. Our results show that labour earnings for affected households drop by approximately 6.5% compared to their counterfactual earnings following the child loss, and that the earnings drop persists for at least two years following the suicide.
dc.identifier.citationEconomics Letters, ISSN: 0165-1765 (Print), Elsevier BV, 111072-111072. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111072
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111072
dc.identifier.issn0165-1765
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/16025
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176523000976
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject38 Economics
dc.subjectSuicide
dc.subjectSuicide Prevention
dc.subjectPrevention
dc.subjectPediatric
dc.subject14 Economics
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.subject38 Economics
dc.subjectLabour market earnings; Youth suicide
dc.titleParents’ Earnings Response to Youth Suicide: Evidence From New Zealand Administrative Records
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.elements-id496821
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