Parental education and child health: evidence from a schooling reform

M. Lindeboom; A. Llena Nozal; B. van der Klaauw

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.08.003

Parental education and child health: evidence from a schooling reform

M. Lindeboom, A. Llena Nozal, B. van der Klaauw

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This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that increasing the school leaving age by 1 year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	109-131
Number of pages	22
Journal	Journal of Health Economics
Volume	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.08.003
Publication status	Published - 2009

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