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20.08.2021 | Research article

Does an upward intergenerational educational spillover effect exist? The effect of children’s education on Chinese parents’ health

verfasst von: Ning Wei, Lülin Zhou, Wenhao Huang

Erschienen in: International Journal of Health Economics and Management | Ausgabe 1/2022

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Abstract

Background

Research on the presence of an upward spillover effect of children’s education on parental health is rapidly developing. However, there are certain differences in the conclusions of relevant studies, and no consistent viewpoint has been reached.

Methods

Using the exogenous differences in education generated by the expansion of higher education enrollment that China implemented as a reform in 1999, we analyze this issue by studying the effect of children’s higher education on their parents’ health.

Results

The instrumental variable (IV) estimation results show that children who received higher education have a significant and positive effect on the physical health of their parents. Compared with the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation results, the coefficient of the effect of children receiving higher education is larger in the IV estimation.

Conclusions

Children’s education can generate a significant active effect on parental health, affecting parental physical health via its effect on parental health cognition and health behaviors. Based on heterogeneity analyses, the effect of a son’s education on parental health is more significant than the effect of a daughter’s education, and among rural children, higher education has a more significant effect on parental health.

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Titel: Does an upward intergenerational educational spillover effect exist? The effect of children’s education on Chinese parents’ health
verfasst von: Ning Wei
Lülin Zhou
Wenhao Huang
Publikationsdatum: 20.08.2021
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: International Journal of Health Economics and Management / Ausgabe 1/2022
Print ISSN: 2199-9023
Elektronische ISSN: 2199-9031
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09308-3

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