Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: Evidence from South Africa

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dc.creatorYamauchi, Futoshi
dc.date2008-04
dc.date2024-11-21T10:02:32Z
dc.date2024-11-21T10:02:32Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:13:24Z
dc.descriptionThis paper examines the effects of early childhood nutrition on schooling inputs and outcomes to assess the dynamic nature of human capital production, using panel data from South Africa. Height-for-age Z-score is used as a measure of health and nutritional status in early childhood. Based on a comparison of siblings, this analysis concludes that improving children’s health significantly lowers the age when they start school, increases grade attainment, and decreases grade repetition in the early stage of schooling. However, this positive effect diminishes at later stages. The results also show that households allocate more of their resources (such as school fee expenditure) to healthy children at the early stage, although wealthier households may invest more in less well endowed children in an attempt to reduce sibling inequality. However, fewer resources are allocated to healthy children at later stages. By the time of transition from primary to secondary school, the healthy child can increase household income by seeking employment in the labor market. In other words, while health capital augments the efficiency of investment in schooling at the early stage, it may increase opportunity costs at the later stage, which may deter investment in schooling.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/162351
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98127
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceYamauchi, Futoshi. 2008. Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context. Economic Development and Cultural Change Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(3): 657-682
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjecthealth care
dc.subjectheight
dc.subjecteducational policies
dc.subjectinvestment
dc.subjectevaluation
dc.subjectnutritional status
dc.subjecthousehold consumption
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjecteconomic aspects
dc.subjectmetadata
dc.subjecthuman capital
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectanthropometry
dc.titleEarly childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: Evidence from South Africa
dc.typeJournal Article

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