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Endowments at Birth and Parents' Investments in Children

Author(s) -

Adhvaryu Achyuta,

Nyshadham Anant

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12186

Subject(s) - tanzania , fertility , context (archaeology) , quality (philosophy) , economics , scale (ratio) , demographic economics , labour economics , medicine , environmental health , socioeconomics , population , geography , philosophy , cartography , archaeology , epistemology

Do parents invest more in higher quality children, or do they compensate for lower quality by giving more to children with lower endowments? We answer this question in the context of a large‐scale iodine supplementation programme in Tanzania. We find that children with higher programme exposure were more likely to receive necessary vaccines and were breastfed for longer. Siblings of treated children were also more likely to be immunised. Fertility behaviour and investments at the time of birth were unaffected.

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