Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.10.016
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发表时间：
2011-04-01
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Rawlings, Samantha B.
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作者：
Bhalotra, Sonia;Rawlings, Samantha B.
本文的动机是调查往往被忽视的回报投资于女孩和妇女的健康方面的下一代的成果。本文研究了跨时间和区域以及跨孕产妇健康分布的健康代际持续性。它使用了1970年至2000年31年期间38个发展中国家约60万母亲所生多达224万名儿童的可比微观数据。母亲的健康是由她的身高，BM！和贫血状态。儿童健康是由死亡风险和人体测量失败来表示的。我们发现，孕产妇和儿童健康之间的积极关系的指标，并强调在这些关系的非线性。结果表明，母亲的当代和儿童健康都很重要，而且对下一代的好处可能是持久的。平均整个样本，持久性显示了相当大的下降，随着时间的推移。分类显示，只有拉丁美洲的下降幅度较大。在亚洲，持久性基本保持不变，在非洲则有所上升。该文件提供了对健康状况代际持续性的首次跨国估计和对趋势的首次估计。(C)2010 Elsevier B. V.保留所有权利，
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable microdata on as many as 2.24 million children born of about 0.6 million mothers in 38 developing countries in the 31 year period, 1970-2000. Mother's health is indicated by her height, BM! and anemia status. Child health is indicated by mortality risk and anthropometric failure. We find a positive relationship between maternal and child health across indicators and highlight non-linearities in these relationships. The results suggest that both contemporary and childhood health of the mother matter and that the benefits to the next generation are likely to be persistent. Averaging across the sample, persistence shows a considerable decline over time. Disaggregation shows that the decline is only significant in Latin America. Persistence has remained largely constant in Asia and has risen in Africa. The paper provides the first cross-country estimates of the intergenerational persistence in health and the first estimates of trends. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved,