The Effect of Vaccination on Children's Physical and Cognitive Development in the Philippines

David Bloom, David Canning and Erica Seiguer

PGDA Working Papers from Program on the Global Demography of Aging

Abstract: We use data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey in the Philippines to link vaccination in the first two years of life with later physical and cognitive development in children. We use propensity score matching to estimate the causal effect of vaccination on child development. We find no effect of vaccination on later height or weight, but full childhood vaccination for measles, polio, TB, and DPT significantly increases cognitive test scores relative to matched children who received no vaccinations. The size of the effect is large, raising test scores, on average, by about half a standard deviation.

Keywords: vaccination; Phiippines; cognitive development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04
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