母親健康知識、產前檢查與健康生產函數
Date Issued
2004-10-31
Date
2004-10-31
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DOI
922415H002008SSS
Abstract
Many studies have documented that parental education, especially maternal education,
has a significant positive impact on child health. This study exploits a natural experiment
to estimate the causal impact of education in Taiwan. In 1968, the Taiwan government
extended compulsory education from six to nine years, which required all school-age
children (between six and fifteen) to attend elementary school for six years and junior
high school for three years. To accommodate the expected increase in enrollment in
junior high schools, the government opened 140 new junior high schools, a seventypercent
increase, in 1968. This education reform created the largest expansion in junior
high school constructions and student enrollment in Taiwan. Our natural experiment
exploits variations across cohorts in exposure to compulsory education reform and across
regions in newly established school density. We estimate the impact of mother’s
education on child health by using cohort and newly established school density
interactions as instruments for parents’ education. Our main data are annual birth and
death certificates from 1978 to 1999. Our 2SLS estimates suggest that mother’s schooling
has larger effects on child health outcomes than father’s schooling. Parental schooling
reduces the probability of low birthweight, very low birthweight and prematurity, but has
no significant impact in lowering neonatal, infant and postneonatal mortality.
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學經濟學系暨研究所
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