Better prepared for retirement? Using panel data to improve wealth estimates of ELSA respondents

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This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting. It examines the effects of a randomized intervention in Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is funded by increased father’s labor supply, constituting evidence that changes in the perceived child health production function affect adult labor supply. Improved consumption also results in better child health.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. 07/12

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior: General ; Health and Economic Development ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Thema: Infant Health ; Health Information ; Cluster Randomized Control Trial ; Rentner ; Soziale Lage ; Messung ; Panel ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Banks, James ; Emmerson, Carl ; Tetlow, Gemma
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• (wo): London
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2007.0712
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71585
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ