Early Health Shocks, Intra-household Resource Allocation and Child Outcomes.
Early Health Shocks, Intra-household Resource Allocation and Child Outcomes.
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DOI：
10.1111/ecoj.12291
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发表时间：
2015-11
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Conti G
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作者：
Yi J;Heckman JJ;Zhang J;Conti G
文献中的一个悬而未决的问题是，家庭是否会补偿或加强儿童健康冲击的影响。讨论通常集中在儿童投资的一个方面。本文使用中国平均年龄为11岁的双胞胎儿童的家庭调查数据对多个维度进行了检验。我们发现，与0-3岁未遭受早期负面健康冲击的双胞胎兄弟姐妹相比，在调查前12个月内，另一个遭受负面健康冲击的双胞胎兄弟姐妹获得的健康投资增加了305元，但获得的教育投资少了182元。在所有投资领域的资金转移方面，家庭在应对儿童早期健康冲击方面起到了净均衡器的作用。我们估计了一个人力资本生产函数，并确定，对于这个样本，早期健康冲击对儿童人力资本产生负面影响，包括健康、教育和社会情感技能。以BMI衡量的对健康的补偿性投资将健康冲击的不利影响减少50%，但将冲击对教育程度的不利影响加剧30%。
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%.