Endowments at Birth and Parents' Investments in Children

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant
• 署名单位: University of Southern California
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12186
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 781-820
• 关键词: maternal sensitivity; Adult outcomes; fetal origins; exposure; tanzania; weight; HEALTH; population; infancy; malaria

摘要

Do parents invest more in higher quality children, or do they compensate for lower quality by giving more to children with lower endowments? We answer this question in the context of a large-scale iodine supplementation programme in Tanzania. We find that children with higher programme exposure were more likely to receive necessary vaccines and were breastfed for longer. Siblings of treated children were also more likely to be immunised. Fertility behaviour and investments at the time of birth were unaffected.