Arbeitspapier
Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform
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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 06-109/3
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Education: Government Policy
- Thema
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returns to education
intergenerational mobility
health
regression-discontinuity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lindeboom, Maarten
Nozal, Ana Llena
van der Klaauw, Bas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lindeboom, Maarten
- Nozal, Ana Llena
- van der Klaauw, Bas
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2006