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9 août 2023
- handle: 10670/1.fe3o8t
- hal: hal-04216614
- doi: 10.1007/s00148-023-00966-w
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Education Human capital Couples Child’s health Sub-Saharan Africa C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models • Multiple Variables/C.C3.C34 - Truncated and Censored Models • Switching Regression Models C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models • Multiple Variables/C.C3.C36 - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I0 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I26 - Returns to Education J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J12 - Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic Abuse O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic DevelopmentSujets proches
Students--Education Children--Education Education of children Schooling Pedagogy Youth--Education Instruction Education, Primitive Human resource developmentCiter ce document
Elodie Djemai et al., « Mothers and Fathers: Education, Co-residence, and Child Health », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.1007/s00148-023-00966-w
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This paper evaluates the causal effects of mother’s and father’s education on child-health outcomes in Zimbabwe, exploiting the exogenous variation generated by the 1980 education reform. We use four waves of Demographic and Health Surveys for Zimbabwe and estimate a simultaneous-equation model to take into account possible selection into co-residence between parents and children, endogeneity biases, and parental education sorting. Our results suggest that father’s education affects the health outcomes of under-5 children and matters more than that of the mother. These results continue to hold in a number of robustness checks. Moreover, while there is selection into co-residence with the child, this does not affect the causal effect of education on child health. Last, parental educational sorting is also shown to be important. Our findings suggest that not taking the education of both parents into account simultaneously may yield misleading conclusions.