Children’s education and parental old age survival – Quasi-experimental evidence on the intergenerational effects of human capital investment
Abstract
While a large literature has investigated the role of parental human capital on children’s well-being, relatively little is known regarding the effects of human capital investment in children on long run outcomes of parents. In this study we explore the human capital variations created by the 1974 Tanzania education reform to estimate the effect of children’s primary schooling attainment on parental survival. Using 5,026,315 census records from...
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Title
Children’s education and parental old age survival – Quasi-experimental evidence on the intergenerational effects of human capital investment
Published Date
Mar 1, 2018
Journal
Volume
58
Pages
76 - 89
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