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| Autor/inn/en | Jayachandran, Seema; Lleras-Muney, Adriana |
|---|---|
| Institution | National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA. |
| Titel | Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines. NBER Working Paper No. 13947 |
| Quelle | (2008)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Control Groups; Human Capital; Foreign Countries; Poverty; Risk; Economics; Mortality Rate; Pregnancy; Females; Physical Health; Educational Environment; Gender Differences; Correlation; Developing Nations; Sri Lanka |
| Abstract | Longer life expectancy should encourage human capital accumulation, since a longer time horizon increases the value of investments that pay out over time. Previous work has been unable to determine the empirical importance of this life-expectancy effect due to the difficulty of isolating it from other effects of health on education. We examine a sudden drop in maternal mortality risk in Sri Lanka between 1946 and 1953, which creates a sharp increase in life expectancy for school-age girls without contemporaneous effects on health, and which also allows for the use of boys as a control group. Using additional geographic variation, we find that the 70% reduction in maternal mortality risk over the sample period increased female life expectancy at age 15 by 4.1%, female literacy by 2.5%, and female years of education by 4.0%. (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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