Experimental Evidence on Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status

经济地位代际传递的实验证据

• 批准号: 2149446
• 负责人: Edward Miguel
• 金额: $ 63.18万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Evidence; Intergenerational; Transmission; Economic

The persistence of health disparities and poverty is a major global economic policy issue. Despite this, relatively little is known about the intergenerational transmission of economic status and human capital, in part due to limited data. This study will provide causal evidence of the long-term and intergenerational impacts of child health interventions, assessing whether a health and human capital intervention has the potential to improve recipients’ adult socioeconomic status as well as life outcomes of their children. In addition, the research will use the rich longitudinal survey data collected for the project to study potential mechanisms through which adult life changes may translate into intergenerational impacts, and whether these effects differ by gender or socioeconomic status. The results of this research have important implications for public policy design regarding approaches to promote intergenerational mobility and reduce persistent economic inequalities. The results could also inform policies to reduce wealth inequalities across socioeconomic groups over time.This research utilizes both experimental and non-experimental variation to examine the long-term and intergenerational returns to child health investments, by combining randomized interventions with a 26-year longitudinal dataset containing detailed information on both program participants and their children. This project extends data collection of a school-based deworming intervention and a randomized cash grants intervention for 6,500 program participants (who were aged 8-15 in 1998), to create a novel intergenerational panel dataset. Using this dataset, the research will study the potential mechanisms driving the intergenerational transmission of economic status, including human capital, economic preferences, and attitudes, living standards and economic status, and parental investment decisions. Understanding these intergenerational drivers of child well-being has important implications for public policies to assist marginalized individuals in escaping poverty and improving health in both the US and internationally. The results have important implications for public policy design regarding approaches to promote intergenerational mobility and reduce persistent economic inequalities. The results could also inform policies to reduce wealth inequalities across socioeconomic groups over time.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

尽管如此，健康差距和贫困的持续存在是一个主要的全球经济政策问题，但人们对经济地位和人力资本的代际传递知之甚少，部分原因是本研究将提供长期的因果证据。儿童健康干预措施的长期和代际影响，评估健康和人力资本干预措施是否有可能改善接受者的成人社会经济地位及其子女的生活成果。此外，该研究将使用收集的丰富的纵向调查数据。该项目旨在研究成人生活的潜在机制变化可能会转化为代际影响，以及这些影响是否因性别或社会经济地位而异。这项研究的结果对促进代际流动和减少持续的经济不平等的公共政策设计方法具有重要意义。随着时间的推移，社会经济群体之间的财富不平等。本研究通过将随机干预措施与包含项目参与者详细信息的 26 年纵向数据集相结合，利用实验和非实验变量来检验儿童健康投资的长期和代际回报和该项目将基于学校的驱虫干预措施和随机现金补助干预措施的数据收集扩展到 6,500 名计划参与者（1998 年年龄为 8-15 岁），以使用该数据集创建一个新颖的代际小组数据集。将研究驱动经济地位代际传递的潜在机制，包括人力资本、经济偏好和态度、生活水平和经济地位，以及父母的投资决策。了解这些儿童福祉的代际驱动因素对公共政策具有重要意义。研究结果对促进代际流动和减少持续经济不平等的公共政策设计具有重要意义。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。