Parental health shocks and schooling: The impact of mutual health insurance in Rwanda

Woode, Maame Esi

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.023

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“…Our findings are broadly consistent with Bratti and Mendola (2014), but are different from other previous studies, which show that father's illness has significant impact on school attendance of children and that this effect is not due to increased child labour (Alam, 2015, Liu, 2016, Woode, 2017. However, it is very hard to disentangle the reasons for these differences that can be attributed to the different educational and institutional context of the corresponding countries.…”

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“…The study of the impact of parental health is particularly important in developing countries, where social protection is limited and people have restricted access to formal health insurance (Gertler and Gruber, 2002;Wagstaff, 2007;Liu, 2016 andWoode, 2017). Major illnesses are unpredictable and can represent very serious shocks for families, both in the rural and urban context (Wagstaff, 2007;Sun and Yao, 2010).…”

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The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam

2019

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This paper investigates the relationship between parental illness and children's engagement in education and labour market, using a panel data from Vietnam. While there is substantial evidence showing the intergenerational transmission of health, the literature investigating the impact of parental health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child fixed effects and control for a detailed set of household and local area characteristics. Our main findings show that maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 11 and 23 years old and, at the same time, increases the children's likelihood of entering the labour market and working more hours. The effect is particularly pronounced for girls, who seem to experience worst adverse consequences in terms of education and labour market engagement.

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Section: Parental Health and Children Workcontrasting

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The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam

2019

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“…Several theories formulate returns to investments in intergenerational transmission, but only few studies have so far tested the intergenerational transition of a health shock on the next generation's academic outcomes. The majority of studies have been conducted in developing or low-income countries, with focus on school enrolment and attendance (Alam 2015;Bratti & Mendola 2014;Dhanaraj 2016;Mendolia et al, 2019;Sun & Yao, 2010;Woode, 2017). Although of interest, these findings cannot be generalised to higher income countries with well-established public sectors.…”

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Effects of parental health shocks on children's school achievements: A register-based population study

Aaskoven¹,

Kjær²,

Gyrd‐Hansen³

2020

SSRN Journal

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The onset of a major illness is one of the most sizeable and unpredictable shocks an individual may experience and can have devastating effects not only on the individual but the entire household, including children. If a parental health shock reduces investments in children, it may have long-lasting implications on the children's future socioeconomic status with consequences on their adult health. Using a detailed longitudinal dataset of Danish children born in the period 1987-2000, this paper studies how a severe parental health shock affects children's school achievements. We use coarsened exact matching to control for potential endogeneity between parental health and children's school outcomes and employ cancer specific survival rates to measure the size of the health shock. We find robust negative effects of a parental health shock on children's basic school grades as well as their likelihood of starting and finishing secondary education, especially for poor prognosis cancers. We observe different outcomes across children's gender and age, but no effects of family-related resilience factors such as parental education level. The effects seem not to be driven by pecuniary costs but by non-pecuniary costs such as time and emotional investments. Moreover, we find that the negative effects on school performance increase in the size of the health shock for both survivors and deaths suggesting that the trajectory of the illness, and not only final outcome, is important.

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“…al., 2003;Glick et. al., 2016), health shocks (Woode, 2017;Dinku et. al., 2018;Sun and Yao, 2010;Woldehanna and Hagos, 2012;Evans and Miguel, 2007), and fertility shocks (Kpein et.…”

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Household income dynamics and investment in children: Evidence from India

Dhanaraj

Paul

Gade³

2019

Education Economics

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Income shocks on households in developing countries are known to have an impact on the investment in the education of children. In this paper, we explore the effects of various income and expenditure shocks on educational investment and cognitive outcomes of children. In order to understand the mechanisms through which shocks affect children"s human capital we employ a range of dependent variables that capture input, output and outcome measures of education. We use three rounds of household-level panel data from Young lives survey conducted in two southern states of India, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Dynamic Panel data model using system General Method of Moments (GMM) estimator is used for investigating the impact of various income and expenditure shocks on children"s education and cognitive abilities. We find that idiosyncratic shocks like paternal health shocks and livestock loss translate into lower inputs of children"s education which in turn reduce their cognitive ability captured through vocabulary and mathematics tests. The results also suggest that these shocks mainly affect children"s development through decreased time spent in school.

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Parental health shocks and schooling: The impact of mutual health insurance in Rwanda

Cited by 20 publications

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The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam

The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam

Effects of parental health shocks on children's school achievements: A register-based population study

Household income dynamics and investment in children: Evidence from India

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