Maternal education and child health: Causal evidence from Denmark

Arendt, Jacob Nielsen; Christensen, Mads Lybech; Hjorth-Trolle, Anders

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102552

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“…In line with previous research ( 64 – 66 ), we find that the prevalence of child obesity is higher in families with a lower SES. Especially for rural and left-behind children, family income and education are important in reducing childhood obesity rates.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Grandchild care, inadequate medical insurance protection, and inequalities in socioeconomic factors exacerbate childhood obesity in China

Yang

Shen

Deng

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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This study examines the influences of grandchild care and medical insurance on childhood obesity. Nationally representative longitudinal data—from the China Family Panel Studies 2010–2020—of 26,902 school-age children and adolescents aged 6–16 years and China's new reference standard (“WS/T586-2018”) are used to identify a child's obesity status. Using binary mixed-effects logistic regression models and the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition method, this study explores the roots of obesity inequalities and finds that at least 15% of Chinese children aged 6–16 were obese in the 2010s. The logistic regression analysis results indicate that grandchild care, public medical insurance, and commercial medical insurance are key risk factors of child obesity. However, the influences are heterogeneous in different groups: Grandchild care and public medical insurance increase urban–rural obesity inequalities because of a distribution effect, and grandchild care may also exacerbate children obesity inequalities between left-behind and non-left-behind children owing to the event shock of parental absence. Inequalities in socioeconomic status (SES) factors such as income, education, and region also cause obesity inequalities. These results indicate that child obesity and its inequalities are rooted in multidimensional environmental inequalities, including medical protection policies and its benefit incidence; intergenerational behavior and family SES factors; and urban–rural and left-behind risk shocks. This study provides new evidence for the development of population-based interventions and equitable medical insurance policies to prevent the deterioration of child obesity among Chinese school-age children and adolescents.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Grandchild care, inadequate medical insurance protection, and inequalities in socioeconomic factors exacerbate childhood obesity in China

Yang

Shen

Deng

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…The maternal characteristics that are consistent and statistically significant indicate that maternal education and maternal height are negatively associated with stunting. Maternal education is highlighted as an important contributor to child survival through better knowledge on nutritional benefits and modern health services (Arendt et al, 2021; Le & Nguyen, 2020). Maternal height reflects the mother's health status which has been shown to be strongly correlated with child health outcomes (Porwal et al, 2021; Subramanian et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Ruggedness and child health outcomes: Evidence from Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria

Chisadza,

Clance,

van der Merwe

et al. 2023

South African J Economics

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This paper examines the effect of terrain ruggedness on child stunting in Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria. Using a cross‐section analysis with data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and a measure that captures variation in the terrains of the countries, we find that the more difficult it is to traverse the terrain in Burundi, Cameroon and Nigeria, the higher the likelihood of child stunting. However, this association is not consistent for Ethiopia until we account for the Oromia region, which has the capital city Addis Ababa. These results remain robust with the inclusion of socio‐economic factors related to child health (e.g. maternal health, maternal education and household income), demographic factors (e.g. gender of child), other geographical factors (e.g. rainfall patterns and malaria prevalence) and survey and region effects. The results suggest that there are complementary factors to geography that may contribute to poor child health outcomes, such as the quality of infrastructure and the ability to access healthcare services. Given that child health is a key development outcome, understanding such spatial variations associated with child health inequalities can assist in designing effective intervention programmes and allocating resources where they are most needed.

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“…And to top things off, Arendt et al. (2021) replicate my batting average of 500 in one paper. They employ the 1972 Danish school reform that increased compulsory schooling from seven to nine years as an instrument for maternal schooling.…”

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confidence: 93%

The demand for health turns 50: Reflections

Grossman

2022

Health Economics

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Each academic year, I teach the first session of a one semester course in health economics for second-year graduate students. The reading for that session consists of two seminal works in health economics: Kenneth Arrow's 'Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care' and Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation [Arrow, 1963;Grossman, 1972a]. These two works have resulted in two largely nonoverlapping streams of the by-now vast health economics literature. Arrow's article led … to a literature on the functioning of markets for medical services and health insurance. Grossman's book led to a literature on determinants of the health status of the population, only one determinant of which … is medical care.

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Maternal education and child health: Causal evidence from Denmark

Cited by 25 publications

References 44 publications

Grandchild care, inadequate medical insurance protection, and inequalities in socioeconomic factors exacerbate childhood obesity in China

Grandchild care, inadequate medical insurance protection, and inequalities in socioeconomic factors exacerbate childhood obesity in China

Ruggedness and child health outcomes: Evidence from Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria

The demand for health turns 50: Reflections

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