Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform

Maarten Lindeboom (), Ana Llena-Nozal () and Bas van der Klaauw
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No 2516, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that postponing the school leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on child health are at most modest.

Keywords: returns to education; health; regression-discontinuity; intergenerational mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2006-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-hea, nep-hrm, nep-knm, nep-lab, nep-ltv, nep-reg and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Journal of Health Economics 2009, 28 (1), 109-131

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