Human capital development and parental investment in India

Arbeitspapier

In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health. We find that investments are very important determinants of child cognition and of health at an earlier age. We also find that inputs are complementary and crucially that health is very important in determining cognition. Our paper contributes in understanding how early health outcomes are important in child development.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper ; No. 1052

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health and Inequality ; Health and Economic Development ; Education and Economic Development ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Thema: Human Capital ; Child Development ; India ; Intergenerational Transmission ; Bildungsinvestition ; Eltern ; Kognition ; Produktionsfunktion ; Gesundheit ; Kinder ; Indien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Attanasio, Orazio P. ; Meghir, Costas ; Nix, Emily
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Yale University, Economic Growth Center
• (wo): New Haven, CT
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/147536
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ