Estimating the Effect of Maternal Education on Child Health Using Microdata from 22 African Countries
2019/09/10
研討會日期 : 2019-09-10
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Stacey Chen (陳香如)
主持人 : Professor Kong-Pin Chen
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Chen received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Rochester in 2002. She is currently an Associate Professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). Her main research fields are Labor, Education & Health Economics, and Applied Econometrics.
演講摘要 : In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of maternal education on child health in Africa, by exploiting variation in exposure to free primary education policies across countries and birth cohorts between 1976 and 2007. Using microdata from 22 African countries, we find policy exposure significantly increases women’s education attainment by one year. The extra schooling has a small but non-negligible protective effect on child health. The mechanism for the protective effect is that women who have more education have fewer children, exhibit more health-seeking behaviors, and have greater economic opportunities.
