Health/Human Capital Investimates- Long-term impact: Randomized Experiments Kenya

健康/人力资本调查 - 长期影响：肯尼亚随机实验

• 批准号: 8332146
• 负责人: EDWARD ANDREW MIGUEL
• 金额: $ 47.89万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-05 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8332146
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Academic achievement; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; Africa South of the Sahara; Age; Award; Cessation of life; Child; Child health care; Childhood; Cities; Cognitive; Data; Data Collection; Data Set; Developing Countries; Early treatment; Education; Education Projects; Employment; Enrollment; Entrepreneurship; Evaluation; Family; Fees; Female; Fertility; Gender; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Status; Health education; Height; Hour; Individual; Intervention; Investments; Kenya; Life; Marketing; Marriage; Marriage and Family; Mental Health; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Nutritional; Occupations; Outcome; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Population; Poverty; Prevalence; Price; Primary Schools; Randomized; Research; Respondent; Running; Rural; Sampling; Schedule; Scholarship; School Enrollments; Schools; Sex Behavior; Socioeconomic Status; Students; Surveys; Teenagers; Testing; Unemployment; United States National Institutes of Health; Vocational Education; Wages; Work; Youth; base; beneficiary; burden of illness; design; girls; human capital; improved; intergenerational; migration; novel; nutrition; physical conditioning; programs; prospective; research study; success; transmission process; voucher; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will extend a remarkable longitudinal (panel) data set of educational, health, nutritional, demographic and labor market outcomes among a sample of Kenyan youth. The existing data set was collected from 1998-2009 with partial support from an NIH/NICHD R01, and the proposed project will extend it for an additional six years, through 2015. The resulting 17-year longitudinal data set will allow for rigorous estimation of the long-run impact of health and human capital interventions on a range of life outcomes, and for an exploration of the determinants of "successful" transitions to adulthood. In particular, this project proposes to locate and re-survey approximately 6,800 respondents of the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS), an unusual longitudinal data set comprised of Kenyan youth, many of whom were beneficiaries of earlier health and human capital interventions. These interventions include (i) a health program that provided deworming medication to more than 30,000 primary school children starting in 1998, (ii) a merit-based scholarship award program supporting school fees for female students in primary schools enrolling nearly 12,000 individuals in grades 5 and 6 in 2001-2002, and (iii) a program launched in 2008 to provide tuition vouchers to support up to two years of vocational education for roughly 1,100 young adults, all of whom had earlier been part of the deworming or scholarship program samples. Since the selection of beneficiaries for these earlier interventions was randomized, the data collection will allow us to estimate how exogenous gains in childhood health or education (or a combination of the two) affect a wide range of adult life outcomes. In previous and ongoing research, these interventions were shown to have substantial short- to medium-term impacts on beneficiaries. Despite strong a priori reasons to anticipate significant long-term labor market and demographic benefits from better childhood health and education, these effects have rarely been demonstrated empirically, in large part due to the near total absence of extended longitudinal data of the kind we propose to collect. Evidence is urgently needed by public policymakers attempting to design effective health and education programs in less developed countries. Furthermore, the proposed data collection will provide an exceptional opportunity to examine the determinants of "successful" adulthood transitions for adolescents in a setting characterized by high poverty rates, unemployment, fertility, and disease burdens. During recent KLPS data collection in 2007-2009, respondents were on average 22 years old, merely 38% were married and 44% had children. As these individuals progress from their late teens and early 20s into full-fledged adulthood, many will embark on important life transitions including marriage and family formation, job search, entrepreneurship and migration, presenting a rare opportunity to document in detail their life trajectories over the next six years. The resulting multi-round KLPS data set will follow the median sample respondent from age 12 through to age 30.

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的项目将在肯尼亚青年样本中扩展教育、健康、营养、人口和劳动力市场结果的显著纵向(小组)数据集。现有的数据集是在NIH/NICHD R01的部分支持下从1998-2009年收集的，拟议的项目将把它再延长六年，直到2015年。由此产生的17年纵向数据集将允许对健康和人力资本干预对一系列生活结果的长期影响进行严格估计，并探索“成功”过渡到成年的决定因素。特别是，该项目提议对肯尼亚生活小组调查的大约6 800名受访者进行定位和重新调查，这是一个由肯尼亚青年组成的不同寻常的纵向数据集，他们中的许多人是早期健康和人力资本干预措施的受益者。这些干预措施包括：(1)从1998年开始向30,000多名小学生提供驱虫药物的保健方案；(2)基于功绩的奖学金奖励方案，支持2001-2002年招收近12,000名5年级和6年级学生的小学女生学费；(3)2008年启动的一项方案，为大约1,100名年轻人提供长达两年的职业教育支持，所有这些人都曾是驱虫或奖学金方案样本的一部分。由于这些早期干预措施的受益者是随机选择的，数据收集将使我们能够估计儿童健康或教育(或两者的组合)的外源性收益如何影响成人生活的广泛结果。在以往和正在进行的研究中，这些干预措施被证明对受益者有重大的短期和中期影响。尽管有充分的先验理由预测更好的儿童健康和教育会带来显著的长期劳动力市场和人口统计方面的好处，但这些影响很少得到经验证明，很大程度上是因为几乎完全没有我们建议收集的那种扩展的纵向数据。试图在欠发达国家设计有效的卫生和教育计划的公共政策制定者迫切需要证据。此外，拟议的数据收集将提供一个难得的机会，在贫困率、失业率、生育率和疾病负担较高的情况下，审查青少年“成功”成年期过渡的决定因素。在最近收集的2007-2009年KLPS数据中，受访者的平均年龄为22岁，只有38%的人已婚，44%的人有孩子。随着这些人从十几岁末和20岁出头进入成熟的成年阶段，许多人将开始重要的人生转型，包括婚姻和家庭的形成、找工作、创业和移民，这为详细记录他们未来六年的人生轨迹提供了难得的机会。由此得到的多轮KLPS数据集将跟踪样本受访者的中位数，从12岁到30岁。