HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY

这项研究关注的是健康方面的代际流动性， 发展中经济体的人力资本成果。 根据巴西的数据， 在玻利维亚和哥伦比亚，我们将测量父母和 社区特征对儿童的一系列指标的影响 健康：儿童身高和体重（取决于身高）以及 儿童成年后的人力资本，由劳动力市场代理 收益。 对于这些结果，我们将估计教育的回报， 特别注意家庭背景的单独贡献 这将以父母的教育程度和身高来衡量。 的方式 社区服务和基础设施影响人力资本积累， 特别是儿童的身高和体重，也将被研究。我们将研究 既有独立效应，也有 更好的社区卫生、教育和水基础设施， 和家庭特征。 结果将在内部和内部之间进行比较 这三个国家的队列和巴西，跨时间。 家庭一级的数据将来自巴西的两项大型调查， 1982年全国住户抽样调查，以及世界银行的《生活标准》 在玻利维亚和哥伦比亚进行计量调查。 这些家庭调查， 这是非常全面的，将与社区数据相匹配， 服务可用性，形成一个非常丰富的数据库，我们将 确定儿童福祉指标的决定因素。

This study is concerned with intergenerational mobility in health and human capital outcomes in developing economies. Using data from Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia, we will measure the effects of parental and community characteristics on a series of indicators of children's well-being: child height and weight (conditional on height) and the children's subsequent human capital as adults, proxied by labor market earnings. For these outcomes, we will estimate returns to education, paying particular attention to the separate contribution of family background which will be measured with parental education and stature. The way community services and infrastructure affect human capital accumulation, especially child height and weight, will also be studied. We will examine both independent effects and the interaction between the availability of better community health, education, and water infrastructure, and parental and household characteristics. Results will be compared within and across the three countries by cohort and, for Brazil, across time. Household level data will be drawn from two very large Brazilian surveys, ENDEF and the 1982 PNAD, and from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Surveys in Bolivia and Colombia. These household surveys, which are unusually comprehensive, will be matched with community data on service availability to form a very rich database with which we will identify the determinants of the indicators of child well-being.