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Title: The Gendered Spillover Eect of Young Childrens Health on Human Capital: Evidence from Turkey

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This article investigates how technology interacts with underlying gender norms to aect health and human capital. The 1985 Turkish National Immunization Campaign vaccinated under-ve children against measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. The campaign was successful in reducing disability and increasing educational attainment for the targeted beneciaries. I nd similar but smaller gains of the campaign on human capital accumulation for older siblings who had an age eligible child in the household. These spillover eects accrue exclusively to older sisters, increase in the number of young children in the household and are larger if the mother works outside the home. Conversely, such eects are absent in the presence of grandmothers or if there are no young children in the household. My ndings are consistent with predictions from a standard intrahousehold model of time allocation in the presence of gender norms regarding domestic work and suggest technologies and policies that improve the health of young children may have the added benet of improving educational outcomes for their older sisters.

Url: http://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/tnic_0.pdf

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Authors: Alsan, Marcella

Publisher: Stanford University

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Gender, Health, Other

Countries: Turkey