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The impact of parental income and education on child health : further evidence for England

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  • Orla Doyle
  • Colm Harmon
  • Ian Walker

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This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education effects are generally larger than are suggested by the correlations observed in the data. Moreover, we find strong support for the causal effect of income being large for the poor, but small at the average level of income.

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  • Orla Doyle & Colm Harmon & Ian Walker, 2007. "The impact of parental income and education on child health : further evidence for England," Working Papers 10197/1111, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucd:wpaper:10197/1111
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    Keywords

    Child health; Intergenerational transmission; Parent and child; Children--Health and hygiene;
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    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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