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DOI10.3386/w13649
来源IDWorking Paper 13649
Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India
Ashlesha Datar; Arkadipta Ghosh; Neeraj Sood
发表日期2007-11-29
出版年2007
语种英语
摘要This paper examines whether increased background mortality risks induce households to make differential health investments in their high- versus low-endowment children. We argue that increases in background mortality risks may disproportionately affect the survival of the low-endowment sibling, consequently increasing the mortality gap between the high- and low-endowment siblings. This increase in mortality gap may induce households to investment more in their high endowment children. We test this hypothesis using nationally representative data from rural India. We use birth size as a measure of initial health endowment, immunization & breastfeeding as measures of childhood investments and infant mortality rate in the child's village as a measure of mortality risks. We find that in villages with high mortality risks, small-at-birth children in a family are 6 - 17 percent less likely to be breastfed or immunized compared to their large-at-birth siblings. In contrast, we find no significant within family differences in investments in villages with low mortality risks.
主题Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w13649
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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Ashlesha Datar,Arkadipta Ghosh,Neeraj Sood. Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India. 2007.
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