Intergenerational Impacts of Health Investments

健康投资的代际影响

• 批准号: 9219441
• 负责人: EDWARD ANDREW MIGUEL
• 金额: $ 61.12万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-15 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9219441
• 关键词: 5 year old; Academic achievement; Address; Adolescence; Adult; Aftercare; Age; Attitude; Behavioral; Businesses; Capital; Characteristics; Child; Child Development; Child health care; Childhood; Cities; Cognitive; Costs and Benefits; Data; Data Collection; Data Set; Development; Discipline; Emotional; Employment; Entrepreneurship; Family; Fathers; Fertility; Funding; Gender; Grant; Health; Health Status; Health education; Hour; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Investments; Kenya; Language; Life; Link; Living Standards; Longitudinal Surveys; Marriage; Measures; Methodology; Monitor; Mothers; Motor Skills; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Nutritional; Outcome; Parents; Participant; Personality Traits; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Politics; Poverty; Primary Schools; Program Effectiveness; Randomized; Research; Respondent; Running; Rural; Sampling; Schools; Sex Behavior; Socioeconomic Status; Surveys; Training; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Variant; Vocation; Vocational Education; Wages; Work; Youth; age group; aged; beneficiary; burden of illness; cognitive ability; cognitive development; cost effectiveness; design; experience; human capital; improved; innovation; interest; intergenerational; longitudinal dataset; migration; nutrition; programs; skills; skills training; social; success; transmission process; voucher

Project Summary/Abstract This project will extend a longitudinal (panel) dataset of individuals who were participants in one or more randomized health, skills training, and financial capital interventions during childhood and adolescence. The existing dataset (collected with partial support from previous NIH/NICHD funding) contains detailed information on health, educational, nutritional, demographic, social, and labor market outcomes among a sample of thousands of Kenyans during 1998-2016. The current project will extend the panel for an additional four years, through 2020, expanding it to monitor these now fully-fledged adults (aged 26-37 years) as they work and (often) raise their families. The project will gather rich and innovative data on the adults, as well as detailed information on the health, nutrition, and behavioral and cognitive development of their children. The resulting 22-year longitudinal data set will allow the study team to exploit experimental variation to credibly estimate the long-run, and intergenerational, impacts of three distinct interventions that aim to improve youth outcomes. Specifically, the project will interview at least 6,500 adult respondents in the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS), and collect information from 7,200 children aged 3-9. The KLPS sample contains Kenyans who participated in one or more experimental programs providing health investments, skills training, or cash grants. The health study, the Primary School Deworming Program (PSDP), provided deworming medication to rural Kenyan schools starting in 1998. Previous research finds that this intervention had substantial positive impacts on the health, schooling, living standards, labor market hours, and earnings of beneficiaries 10 years after treatment. A subset of PSDP participants additionally took part in a program that provided vocational training vouchers to randomly selected program applicants in 2009-10, and cash grants to a (cross-cutting) randomly selected subpopulation in 2013-14. Initial results provide little evidence of labor market impacts of the vocational training program, but indicate that the cash grants led to large positive impacts on self-employment, business profits, and living standards after one year. The planned data collection will assess long-run persistence of deworming impacts on life outcomes 20 years after treatment, of vocational training after 10 years, and cash grants after 5 years. This project will also estimate the impacts of these interventions among recipients' children, in order to assess the extent to which they can help break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by improving child health and cognitive development. Since the selection of beneficiaries for each program was randomized, the analysis will overcome the key methodological problem of confounding. More accurate information on both the long-term and intergenerational impacts of youth human capital investments is both of great scholarly interest across academic disciplines, and essential for policymakers in Kenya and elsewhere attempting to assess the societal benefits and cost-effectiveness of programs that aim to improve youth health, human capital and living standards.

项目摘要/摘要 该项目将扩展参与一个或多个项目的个人的纵向(小组)数据集 儿童和青春期的随机健康、技能培训和金融资本干预。这个 现有数据集(在以前NIH/NICHD资金的部分支持下收集)包含详细信息 关于健康、教育、营养、人口、社会和劳动力市场结果的样本 1998-2016年间，成千上万的肯尼亚人。目前的项目将把该小组再延长四年， 到2020年，将其扩展到监控这些现在成熟的成年人(26-37岁)的工作和(经常) 养家糊口。该项目将收集关于成年人的丰富和创新的数据以及详细的信息 关于他们孩子的健康、营养以及行为和认知发展。由此产生的22年 纵向数据集将允许研究团队利用实验变异来可信地估计长期， 三种不同的旨在改善青年成果的干预措施的代际影响。 具体地说，该项目将在肯尼亚生活小组调查(KLPS)中采访至少6500名成年受访者， 并从7,200名3-9岁的儿童中收集信息。KLPS样本中包含了参与 一个或多个试验性项目，提供健康投资、技能培训或现金补助。健康 这项研究名为小学驱虫计划(PSDP)，为肯尼亚农村学校提供驱虫药物 从1998年开始。先前的研究发现，这种干预对健康产生了实质性的积极影响， 就学、生活水平、劳动力市场小时数，以及受益者在治疗10年后的收入。一个子集 %的PSDP参与者还参加了一项向随机提供职业培训券的计划 2009-10年度选定的方案申请者，并向(交叉)随机抽样的亚群发放现金赠款 2013-14年度。初步结果几乎没有提供职业培训计划对劳动力市场影响的证据，但 表明现金赠款对自营职业、商业利润和生活产生了巨大的积极影响 一年后达标。计划中的数据收集将评估驱虫影响的长期持久性 治疗后20年的生活结果，10年后的职业培训，5年后的现金补助。 该项目还将评估这些干预措施对受援国儿童的影响，以便评估 他们可以在多大程度上通过改善儿童健康来帮助打破贫困的代际传播 和认知发展。由于每个项目的受益人选择都是随机的，因此分析 将克服混淆这一关键的方法学问题。更准确的信息，既有长期的 青年人力资本投资的代际影响也引起了学术界的极大关注 学术学科，对于肯尼亚和其他地方的政策制定者来说至关重要，他们试图评估社会 旨在改善青年健康、人力资本和生活水平的方案的效益和成本效益。