Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216418 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13106
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and educational outcomes in that country. To do so, we apply various techniques (e.g., propensity score and coarsened exact matching and correlated random effects) to different sets of conditioning variables and subsamples to estimate the average treatment on the treated effect of childhood vaccination. Our results confirm that vaccinations before the age of 15 have long-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are relatively strong, with vaccinated individuals enjoying about one more year of schooling and performing substantially better later in life on several cognitive tests.
Subjects: 
cognitive skills
vaccines
China
education
JEL: 
I12
I18
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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