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Title: Privatizing Water Supply and Human Capital Accumulation

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This study presents empirical evidence that a health improvement program-municipal privatization of water services-in Argentina during the 1990s has a negative effect on later life human capital accumulation. Exploiting variation across regions and across cohorts, I find that early childhood exposure to the program reduces probability of secondary school completion by 3.5 percentage points and years of schooling by 0.4 years. The negative effect is more pronounced for males. I further use the previous census to look at the same cohorts when they were at their school ages, the results show that both girls and boys are more likely to drop out of school, and I find suggestive evidence that boys are more likely to go to work after the program. The finding is consistent with families require healthier children to go to work after improvements in health status.

Url: http://econ.ccu.edu.tw/manage/1542104645_a.pdf

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Authors: Ao, Chon-Kit

Publisher: National Cheng Kung University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Natural Resource Management, Other

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