期刊
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
卷 90, 期 2, 页码 209-230出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.12.001
关键词
Health production function; Parental health inputs; Unobserved heterogeneity
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资金
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD047213-01A2, R01 HD047213-03, R01 HD047213-02] Funding Source: Medline
A dynamic optimization model of parents choosing investments in their children's health motivates an empirical model of parents' choices of health inputs for their children and the impacts of these decisions on their children's subsequent health. Estimates of the child health input demand functions and the child health production functions from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey accord with the prediction that optimizing behavior results in higher levels of aggregate child health. Observable parental behaviors respond to the physical developmental status of their children. These parental responses appear to yield large and statistically significant improvements in children's early physiological outcomes. However, because some health inputs choices are not observable, it is impossible to ascertain whether these measured effects are due solely to variations in the observed input choices. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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