Child schooling, child health and rainfall shocks: evidence from rural Vietnam

We study the effect of early life conditions, proxied by rainfall shocks, on schooling and height in rural Vietnam. Our measure of rainfall shock is defined as deviations from the long-run average. Many Vietnamese rural dwellers engage in rain-fed crop production, mostly irrigated paddy rice. Sufficient annual rainfall could play an important role in the harvest and thus, the household income. Nutritional deficiencies resulting from the household's income shocks may have negative consequences on health. We find that a negative rainfall shock during gestation delays school entry and slows progress through school. In addition, a negative rainfall shock in the third year of life affects adversely both schooling and height. The effects differ by region in ways that reflect differing constraints on families that are shaped by regional economic heterogeneity. We predict that policies that help rural families smooth income shocks will result in increases in human capital and in substantial cumulative returns in productivity over the life course.Vietnam, child nutrition, early childhood, school enrollment

"The Effect of Child Health on Schooling: Evidence from Rural Vietnam"

We study the relationship between long term child health and human capital. Child health may suffer if a child is inadequately nourished or is exposed to disease early in life and this may affect subsequent accumulation of human capital. We use data from rural Vietnam to examine the impact of child health on delay in starting school and schooling progress taking into account that choices of families affect children’s health and schooling. Our instrument is early life rainfall shocks that have differential effects arising from regional economic diversity. Our estimates indicate that better child health results in meaningfully improved schooling outcomes.child health, z-score, school entry delay, schooling gap, rainfall shocks, Vietnam

Memòria Digital de Catalunya

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Causes of Litigation in Workers\u27 Compensation Programs

By applying econometric analyses to case data from two states, Falaris, Link and Staten identify the economic incentives influencing the probability of litigation in workers\u27 compensation cases, and the probability that a contested case is pursued to verdict.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1075/thumbnail.jp

Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages

One consequence of demographic change is substantial shifts in the age distribution of the workingage population. As the baby boom generation ages, the usual historical pattern of a high ratio of younger workers relative to older workers has been replaced by a pattern of roughly equal percentages of workers of different ages. One might expect that the increasing relative supply of older workers would lower the wage premium paid for older, more experienced workers. This paper provides strong empirical support for this hypothesis. Econometric estimates imply that the size of one’s birth cohort affects wages throughout one’s working life, with members of relatively large cohorts (at all stages of their careers) earning a significantly lower wage than members of smaller cohorts. Estimated elasticities of wages with respect to the relative size of one’s own cohort are generally between -0.05 and -0.10, and are of similar magnitude for men and for women. Our results suggest that cohort size effects are quantitatively important and should be incorporated into public policy analyses

The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe

Recent studies emphasize the impact of macroeconomic factors on educational attainment. They show that although individual factors like the educational level of one's parents play a decisive role in determining the human capital accumulation of the children, the cohort size as well as the local labor market seem to have a significant impact, too. This paper analyzes the impact of birth cohort size as well as unemployment on educational attainment in Europe using the European Community Household Panel. Estimation results suggest that neither the size of the birth cohort nor the local unemployment rate induces a change in the individual's schooling decision

A Nested Logit Migration Model with Selectivity.

The author specifies a multiple discrete-choice migration model with a correction for selectivity in wage equations, and applies a less restrictive technique for modeling multiple discrete choices than in previous studies of migration. The author estimates the model using Venezuelan microdata, and finds evidence of positive selection in some state wage equations. This suggests that migration decisions are made according to the principle of comparative advantage. Evidence is also found of unobserved similarities between some states of Venezuela such that individuals regard them as neither perfectly distinct nor perfect substitutes. Copyright 1987 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.