Abolishing user fees, fertility choice, and educational attainment
Abolishing user fees, fertility choice, and educational attainment
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废除使用费、生育选择和教育程度
DOI：
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.09.006
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Takahiro Ito and Shinsuke Tanaka
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福井清一;三輪加奈;高篠仁奈;Takahiro Ito and Shinsuke Tanaka
本研究旨在探讨取消妇幼保健服务收费对南非后种族隔离时代儿童数量和质量的影响。利用外生变量暴露于政策的影响，我们发现，该政策导致家庭的生育率较低，十年后的儿童教育程度更高。不受该政策影响的儿童没有受到影响，这就消除了通过各种先前存在的趋势或未观察到的同时发生的变化产生影响的渠道。重要的政策含义是：（一）儿童数量-质量权衡模型的理论预测特征的生育行为在发展中国家的父母;和（二）妇幼保健政策作为一个动力的人口结构转型和人力资本发展。
This study examines the effect of abolishing user fees from the maternal and child health (MCH) services on child quantity and quality in South Africa in the post-apartheid era. Exploiting exogenous variation in exposure to the policy effect, we find that the policy resulted in lower fertility in households and greater educational attainment of children a decade later. The absence of the effects among children not subject to the policy eliminates channels through heterogeneous preexisting trends or unobserved concurrent changes. The important policy implications are (i) the theoretical predictions of the child quantity-quality tradeoff model characterize reproductive behavior among parents in developing countries; and (ii) MCH policy serves as a motivating force underlying the demographic transition and human capital development.