| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13466 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13466 |
| Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan | |
| Shin-Yi Chou; Jin-Tan Liu; Michael Grossman; Theodore J. Joyce | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-10-04 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from six to nine years. From that year through 1973, the government opened 254 new junior high schools, an 80 percent increase, at a differential rate among regions. We form treatment and control groups of women or men who were age 12 or under on the one hand and between the ages of 13 and 20 or 25 on the other hand in 1968. Within each region, we exploit variations across cohorts in new junior high school openings to construct an instrument for schooling. We employ this instrument to estimate the causal effects of mother's or father's schooling on the incidence of low birthweight and mortality of infants born to women in the treatment and control groups or the wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does indeed cause favorable infant health outcomes. The increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant life in 1,000 live births, resulting in a decline in infant mortality of approximately 11 percent. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13466 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571140 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shin-Yi Chou,Jin-Tan Liu,Michael Grossman,et al. Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan. 2007. |
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| w13466.pdf（219KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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