母亲健康知识、产前检查与健康生产函数.PDFVIP

行政院國家科學委員會專題研究計畫 成果報告 母親健康知識、產前檢查與健康生產函數 計畫類別：個別型計畫 計畫編號：NSC92-2415-H-002-008-SSS 執行期間：92年08月01日至93年10月31日 執行單位：國立臺灣大學經濟學系暨研究所 計畫主持人：劉錦添 計畫參與人員：賴盈孝、鄭凱文 報告類型：精簡報告 處理方式：本計畫可公開查詢 中 華 民 93年12月20日 國 Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan Shin-Yi Chou Lehigh University and NBER Jin-Tan Liu National Taiwan University and NBER Michael Grossman City University of New York Graduate Center and NBER Theodore Joyce Baruch College and NBER April 2004 (Preliminary: Do not cite) Abstract: Many studies have documented that parental education, especially maternal education, has a significant positive impact on child health. This study exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of education in Taiwan. In 1968, the Taiwan government extended compulsory education from six to nine years, which required all school-age children (between six and fifteen) to attend elementary school for six years and junior high school for three years. To accommodate the expected increase in enrollment in junior high schools, the governm ent opened 140 new junior high schools, a seventy- percent increase, in 1968. This education reform created the largest expansion in junior high school constructions and student enrollment in Taiwan. Our natural experiment exploits variations across cohorts in exposure to compulsory education