Parental education and child health: evidence from a schooling reform

Maarten Lindeboom; Ana Llena-Nozal; Bas van der Klaauw

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.08.003

Parental education and child health: evidence from a schooling reform

Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw

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Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that increasing the school leaving age by 1 year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	109-131
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of Health Economics
Volume	28
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.08.003
Publication status	Published - Jan 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Health
Intergenerational mobility
Regression-discontinuity
Returns to education

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