Abolishing User Fees, Fertility Choice, and Educational Attainment
IDEC DP2 Series Volume 4 Issue 1
Page 1-34
published_at 2014-02
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| Title ( eng ) |
Abolishing User Fees, Fertility Choice, and Educational Attainment
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| Creator |
Tanaka Shinsuke
Ito Takahiro
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| Source Title |
IDEC DP2 Series
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| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 34 |
| Abstract |
This study examines the effect of abolishing user fees from health services on fertility and educational attainment as a test of the quantity-quality tradeoff model. Exploiting sudden improvements in nutritional status among South African children as an exogenous decline in price of quality investments, we document evidence consistent with the model that parents substitute fertility and increase educational investments. The absence of treatment effects among children not subject to the health policy eliminates channels through heterogeneous preexisting trends or unobserved concurrent changes. Overall, our findings highlight a health policy as a motivating force underlying the demographic transition and economic growth.
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| Keywords |
user fees
fertility
education
South Africa
JEL Classification Numbers: J13
JEL Classification Numbers: O15
JEL Classification Numbers: I15
JEL Classification Numbers: I18
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| NDC |
Economics [ 330 ]
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| Language |
eng
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| Resource Type | departmental bulletin paper |
| Publisher |
広島大学大学院国際協力研究科
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| Date of Issued | 2014-02 |
| Publish Type | Version of Record |
| Access Rights | open access |
