Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu, Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, vol. 2, issue 1, 33-61

Abstract: In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. Within each region, we exploit variations across cohorts in new junior high school openings to construct an instrument for schooling, and employ it to estimate the causal effects of mother's or father's schooling on infant birth outcomes in the years 1978-1999. Parents' schooling does cause favorable infant health outcomes. The increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant life in 1,000 live births. (JEL I12, I21, J12, J13, R23)

JEL-codes: I12 I21 J12 J13 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.2.1.33
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (177)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/app.2.1.33 (application/pdf)
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej/app/data/2008-0139_data.zip (application/zip)
Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.

Related works:
Working Paper: Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aea:aejapp:v:2:y:2010:i:1:p:33-61

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/subscriptions

Access Statistics for this article

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics is currently edited by Alexandre Mas

More articles in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics from American Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael P. Albert ().