The multigenerational impacts of educational expansion: Evidence from Vietnam

Thomas Cornelissen and Thang Dang ()

Labour Economics, 2022, vol. 78, issue C

Abstract: We investigate the multigenerational effects of a primary school expansion program in Vietnam. In the directly affected generation, the expansion increases educational attainment, literacy, non-agricultural economic activity, earnings and the intergenerational educational mobility. It increases human capital investments in the children of the directly affected generation, with increased educational expenditures, school enrollment, and health investments, and a reduction in child labor. Moreover, the expansion improves health in old age of the parents of the directly affected generation, an effect that seems to operate through increased financial resources, access to private health insurance and reduced alcohol consumption.

Keywords: Primary school expansion; Intergenerational spillovers; Human capital investments; Child labor; Old age health; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 I21 I25 I26 I28 J13 J14 J21 J22 J24 N35 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102243

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