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A Bit of Salt a Trace of Life - Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within the province, village-level variation in gender attitudes confirm the importance of parental gender preferences. Consequently, large scale programs can have positive (and possibly) unintended effects on gender equality in societies with son preference.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2020-067/V
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health and Economic Development
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
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Iodine
parental investments
gender attitudes
cognitive skills
non-cognitive skills
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Deng, Zichen
Lindeboom, Maarten
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- Deng, Zichen
- Lindeboom, Maarten
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2020
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