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No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers21 Jun 2013Child Nutrition, Child Health, and School Enrollment: A Longitudinal AnalysisAuthors/Editors: Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Victor Lavy, and Rekha MenonHarold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Victor Lavy, and Rekha Menonhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-1700SectionsAboutPDF (1.5 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:January 1997 Private behavioral choices and policies that affect the health and nutrition of children have far greater effects on school enroolment and thus on eventual productivity than most literature suggests. Better health and nutrition are thought to improve children's performance in school, and therefore their productivity after school. Most literature ignores the fact that child health and schooling reflect behavioral choices, so the estimated impact of health and nutrition on a child's schooling reflects biases in the studies. Using an explicit dynamic model for preferred estimates, the authors use longitudinal data to investigate how children's health and nutrition affect school enrollment in rural Pakistan. They use price shocks when children were of preschool age to control for behavior determining the measure of children's health and nutrition stock. The authors find that children's health and nutrition is three times more important for enrollment than is suggested by naive estimates that assume that children's health and nutrition is predetermined rather that determined by household choices. Not only does improved nutrition increase enrollments, it does so more for girls, thus closing a portion of the gender gap. These results strongly reinforce the importance of using estimation methods that are consistent with the economic theory of households to explore the impact of some choice variables on others, using socioeconomic behavioral data. Private behaviors and public policies that affect the health and nutrition of children have much greater effect on school enrollment and on eventual productivity than suggested by early literature methods. This paper--a product of the Poverty and Human Resources Division, Policy Research Department--is part of a larger effort in the department to evaluate the economic impact of human resource investments. Previous bookNext book FiguresreferencesRecommendeddetailsCited byDeterminantes Del Uso De Los Servicios De Salud Materna En El Litoral Paccfico Colombiano (Determining Factors of the Use of Maternal Health Services in the Colombian Pacific Coast)SSRN Electronic JournalSchool Meals, Educational Achievement, and School Competition: Evidence from a Randomized EvaluationSSRN Electronic JournalTargeted Human Development Programs: Investing in the Next GenerationSSRN Electronic Journal View Published: November 1999 Copyright & Permissions Related RegionsSouth AsiaRelated CountriesPakistanRelated TopicsEducationFinance and Financial Sector DevelopmentGenderHealth Nutrition and PopulationInternational Economics & TradeLaw and DevelopmentMacroeconomics and Economic GrowthPrivate Sector Development KeywordsAVERAGE PRICESDEMANDEXPENDITUREEXPENDITURESINFLATIONINVESTMENTSLABOR MARKETMARKETMARKET PRICEMARKET PRICESMARKET RISKPRICEPRICE LEVELSPRICE STRUCTURESPRICESPRODUCTSTOCKSTOCKSSUPPLYVALUE PDF DownloadLoading ...
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