Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46159 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5194
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is also negative, but smaller in magnitude than that on entrance to junior high school. Given that entering senior high school is contingent on completion of junior high school, the direct impact on entrance to senior high school obviously understates the total impact on the second generation's accumulation of human capital. Our estimation results are generally robust to IV estimation.
Subjects: 
malnutrition
health
schooling
Barker hypothesis
China Famine
JEL: 
I12
J16
P36
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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