全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20757
来源ID	Working Paper 20757
	Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
	Junjian Yi; James J. Heckman; Junsen Zhang; Gabriella Conti
发表日期	2014-12-22
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We find that, compared with a twin sibling who did not suffer from negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early health shocks negatively affect child human capital, including health, education, and socioemotional skills. Compensating investments in health as measured by BMI reduce the adverse effects of health shocks by 50%, but exacerbate the adverse impact of shocks on educational attainment by 30%.
主题	Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20757
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/578432
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Junjian Yi,James J. Heckman,Junsen Zhang,et al. Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes. 2014.