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Aggregate Economic Shocks, Child Schooling, and Child Health

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dc.contributor.authorSchady, Norbert
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Francisco H.G.
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:12:34Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:12:34Z
dc.date.issued2009-09-30
dc.description.abstractDo aggregate income shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts, reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may have a long-lasting impact on poverty and its intergenerational transmission. The authors develop a simple framework to analyze the effects of aggregate economic shocks on child schooling and health. They show that the expected effects are theoretically ambiguous because of a tension between income and substitution effects. They then review the recent empirical literature on the subject. In richer countries, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter-cyclical: they improve during recessions. In poorer countries, mostly in Africa and low-income Asia, the outcomes are procyclical: infant mortality rises and school enrollment and nutrition fall during recessions. In the middle-income countries of Latin America, the picture is more nuanced: health outcomes are generally procyclical and education outcomes counter-cyclical. Each of these findings is consistent with the simple conceptual framework. The authors discuss possible implications for expenditure allocation.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/4427
dc.identifier.issn1564-6971
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4427
dc.publisherWorld Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectaged
dc.subjectbreastfeeding
dc.subjectchild nutrition
dc.subjectchildbirth
dc.subjectdepression
dc.subjecthealth care
dc.subjecthealth outcomes
dc.subjecthealth services
dc.subjecthygiene
dc.subjectintervention
dc.subjectmedicines
dc.subjectmortality
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectnutritional status
dc.subjectpollution
dc.subjectpregnant women
dc.subjectpublic health
dc.subjectsmoking
dc.subjectunemployment
dc.subjectworkers
dc.titleAggregate Economic Shocks, Child Schooling, and Child Healthen
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okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.report2
okr.journal.nbpages147-81
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.volume24
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