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Early Childhood during Indonesia’s Wildfires: Health Outcomes and Long-Run Schooling Achievements
- Source :
- Economic Development and Cultural Change. 67:969-1003
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper empirically investigates the relationship between early childhood health conditions and subsequent educational achievements in a large sample of Indonesian children. I use a long-term panel data set and apply a maternal fixed effect plus an instrumental variables estimator in order to control for possible correlation between some of the components of the error term and the main independent variable, which is likely to cause a bias in the estimates. Differences in health status between siblings are identified by using exposure in early years of life to drought, wildfires, and associated smoke/haze, which seriously affected some parts of Indonesia in late 1997. The estimation results show that health capital (measured by height-for-age z-scores during childhood) significantly and positively affects the number of completed grades of schooling and the readiness to enter school. Nevertheless, I do not find significant evidence of an effect on cognitive test scores.
- Subjects :
- education
Economics and Econometrics
Economic growth
050204 development studies
05 social sciences
Indonesian forest fire
Indonesian forest fires
Development
Health outcomes
language.human_language
Large sample
Indonesian
parasitic diseases
0502 economics and business
child health
language
Early childhood
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15392988 and 00130079
- Volume :
- 67
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Economic Development and Cultural Change
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d0c5d774119389fe4f9306fcfc31cef4