کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5094195 1478481 2018 62 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Abolishing user fees, fertility choice, and educational attainment
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
لغو هزینه های کاربر، انتخاب باروری و تحصیلات
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
This study examines the effect of abolishing user fees from the maternal and child health (MCH) services on child quantity and quality in South Africa in the post-apartheid era. Exploiting exogenous variation in exposure to the policy effect, we find that the policy resulted in lower fertility in households and greater educational attainment of children a decade later. The absence of the effects among children not subject to the policy eliminates channels through heterogeneous preexisting trends or unobserved concurrent changes. The important policy implications are (i) the theoretical predictions of the child quantity-quality tradeoff model characterize reproductive behavior among parents in developing countries; and (ii) MCH policy serves as a motivating force underlying the demographic transition and human capital development.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Development Economics - Volume 130, January 2018, Pages 33-44
نویسندگان
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