Health Shocks and Children's School Attainments in Rural China

Autor/inn/en	Sun, Ang; Yao, Yang
Titel	Health Shocks and Children's School Attainments in Rural China
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 29 (2010) 3, S.375-382 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.04.006
Schlagwörter	Educational Attainment; Birth Order; Foreign Countries; Rural Areas; Elementary School Students; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Middle School Students; Diseases; Health; Parent Student Relationship; Family Environment; Student Reaction; Rural Farm Residents; Adults; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Geburtenfolge; Ausland; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Disease; Krankheit; Gesundheit; Familienmilieu; Schülerkritik
Abstract	Using a long panel dataset of Chinese farm households covering the period of 1987-2002, this paper studies how major health shocks happening to household adults affect children's school attainments. We find that primary school-age children are the most vulnerable to health shocks, with their chances to enter middle school dropping by 9.9 percentage points when a prime-age adult in their families has a major illness. Our robustness regressions that try to take care of the composition bias in illness reports find larger effects with the upper bound being 16.1 percentage points. We also find that the effects of health shocks vary by gender and birth order. However, middle school-age children are not affected by family health shocks. (Contains 2 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10