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Replication data for: Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Year: 2010

Type: dataset

Abstract: In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. Within each region, we exploit variations across cohorts in new junior high school openings to construct an instrument for schooling, and employ it to estimate the causal effects of mother's or father's schooling on infant birth outcomes in the years 1978-1999. Parents' schooling does cause favorable infant health outcomes. The increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant life in 1,000 live births. (JEL I12, I21, J12, J13, R23)

Source: ICPSR Data Holdings

DOI: 10.3886/e113741v1

Authors: Chou, Shin-Yi, Liu, Jin-Tan, Grossman, Michael, Joyce, Ted

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3085766447

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