Open AccessEndowments 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) , scale (ratio) , economics , developmental psychology , medicine , psychology , environmental health , socioeconomics , geography , population , 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.