The Effect of Child Health on Schooling: Evidence from Rural Vietnam

Thuan Quang Thai () and Evangelos Falaris
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Thuan Quang Thai: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

No 10-04, Working Papers from University of Delaware, Department of Economics

Abstract: We study the relationship between long term child health and human capital. Child health may suffer if a child is inadequately nourished or is exposed to disease early in life and this may affect subsequent accumulation of human capital. We use data from rural Vietnam to examine the impact of child health on delay in starting school and schooling progress taking into account that choices of families affect children’s health and schooling. Our instrument is early life rainfall shocks that have differential effects arising from regional economic diversity. Our estimates indicate that better child health results in meaningfully improved schooling outcomes.

Keywords: child health; z-score; school entry delay; schooling gap; rainfall shocks; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J13 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2010
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