Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Arbeitspapier

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important dimensions like the timing of health shocks and pathways through which they affect human capital investment, differential effects of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of schooling in human capital accumulation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-889-6
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/004

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
• Thema: parental health shocks ; school enrolment ; grade attainment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dhanaraj, Sowmya
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/889-6
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126365
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ