Abolishing user fees, fertility choice, and educational attainment
| Autor: | Takahiro Ito, Shinsuke Tanaka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Public economics Maternal and child health 050204 development studies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Reproductive behavior Demographic transition Developing country Fertility Development Human capital Educational attainment jel:J13 jel:I15 user fees fertility education South Africa jel:I18 0502 economics and business Economics Demographic economics Quality (business) jel:O15 050207 economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Development Economics. 130:33-44 |
| ISSN: | 0304-3878 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.09.006 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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