Early Childhood during Indonesia's Wildfires

Health Outcomes and Long-Run Schooling Achievements

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4362933
AutoresMaria Carmela Lo Bue (0000-0002-1340-7737, University of Göttingen, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume67
Fascículo4
Páginas969-1003
Data de publicação2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/700099
OpenAlexW2885555268
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas55

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between early childhood health conditions and subsequent educational achievements in a large sample of Indonesian children. I use a long-term panel data set and apply a maternal fixed effect plus an instrumental variables estimator in order to control for possible correlation between some of the components of the error term and the main independent variable, which is likely to cause a bias in the estimates. Differences in health status between siblings are identified by using exposure in early years of life to drought, wildfires, and associated smoke/haze, which seriously affected some parts of Indonesia in late 1997. The estimation results show that health capital (measured by height-for-age z-scores during childhood) significantly and positively affects the number of completed grades of schooling and the readiness to enter school. Nevertheless, I do not find significant evidence of an effect on cognitive test scores

Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Econometrics · Economics · Estimation · Estimator · Fixed effects model · Indonesian · Instrumental variable · Panel data · Sample (material) · Sociology · Statistics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Mathematics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology