A Four-Country Study on the Relationship Between Parental Educational Homogamy and Children's Health from Infancy to Adolescence.
A Four-Country Study on the Relationship Between Parental Educational Homogamy and Children's Health from Infancy to Adolescence.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11113-020-09627-2
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发表时间：
2022-03
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Pesando LM
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Pesando LM
本研究探讨了父母教育相似性--教育一致性（同婚）或不一致性（异婚）--与儿童健康结果之间的关系。它的贡献是三方面的。首先，我使用纵向数据对儿童的健康结果跟踪儿童从1岁到15岁，从而能够评估是否在关键的生命过程和发展阶段的儿童的关系变化。这是对相关文献的一个重要补充，这些文献的重点仅仅是出生时的结果。其次，我研究了不同的健康结果，即年龄身高（HFA）和年龄BMI（BFA）z分数，以及它们的二分法对应物，发育迟缓和消瘦。第三，我在埃塞俄比亚、印度、秘鲁和越南进行了同样的分析，从而提供了来自不同发展水平、不同社会经济特征和性别动态的国家的多背景证据。结果揭示了重要的异质性跨上下文。在埃塞俄比亚和印度，父母的教育同性婚姻与婴儿和儿童的健康状况较差有关，而在秘鲁和越南，这种关系是积极的。匹配技术的补充估计表明，这些关联往往在1岁后消失，除了在越南，那里的积极关系持续到青春期，从而支持同性婚姻的好处假说不仅在出生时，而且在整个生命早期过程。从这项研究的见解有助于代际传递的优势和劣势的不平等辩论，并阐明了更多的光之间的关系，早期生活条件和晚年的结果在儿童的生活的关键时期。
This study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity – educational concordance (homogamy) or discordance (heterogamy) – and children’s health outcomes. Its contribution is threefold. First and foremost, I use longitudinal data on children’s health outcomes tracking children from age 1 to 15, thus being able to assess whether the relationship changes at key life-course and developmental stages of children. This is an important addition to the relevant literature, where the focus is solely on outcomes at birth. Second, I look at different health outcomes, namely height-for-age (HFA) and BMI-for-age (BFA) z-scores, alongside their dichotomized counterparts, stunting and thinness. Third, I conduct the same set of analyses in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, thus providing multi-context evidence from countries at different levels of development and with different socio-economic characteristics and gender dynamics. Results reveal important heterogeneity across contexts. In Ethiopia and India, parental educational homogamy is associated with worse health outcomes in infancy and childhood, while associations are positive in Peru and, foremost, Vietnam. Complementary estimates from matching techniques show that these associations tend to fade after age 1, except in Vietnam, where the positive relationship persists through adolescence, thus supporting the homogamy-benefit hypothesis not only at birth, but also across the early life course. Insights from this study contribute to the inequality debate on the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage and shed additional light on the relationship between early-life conditions and later-life outcomes in critical periods of children’s lives.
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