Intergenerational Impacts of Health Investments

健康投资的代际影响

基本信息

批准号：
9924586
负责人：
EDWARD ANDREW MIGUEL
金额：
$ 48万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-15 至 2022-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9924586
关键词：
5 year old Academic achievement Address Adolescence Adult Aftercare Age Attitude Behavioral Businesses Capital Characteristics Child Child Development Child Health Childhood Cities Cognitive Costs and Benefits Data Data Collection Data Set Development Discipline Emotional Employment Entrepreneurship Family Fathers Fertility Funding Gender Grant Health Health Status Health education Hour Individual Intervention Interview Investments Kenya Language Life Link Living Standards Longitudinal Surveys Marriage Measures Methodology Monitor Mothers Motor Skills National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Nutritional Outcome Parents Participant Personality Traits Pharmaceutical Preparations Politics Poverty Primary Schools Program Effectiveness Randomized Research Respondent Running Rural Sampling Schools Sex Behavior Socioeconomic Status Surveys Training Training Programs United States National Institutes of Health Variant Vocation Vocational Education Wages Work Youth age group aged beneficiary burden of illness cognitive ability cognitive development cost effectiveness design experience human capital improved innovation interest intergenerational longitudinal dataset migration nutrition programs skills skills training social success transmission process voucher

项目摘要

Project Summary/Abstract This project will extend a longitudinal (panel) dataset of individuals who were participants in one or more randomized health, skills training, and financial capital interventions during childhood and adolescence. The existing dataset (collected with partial support from previous NIH/NICHD funding) contains detailed information on health, educational, nutritional, demographic, social, and labor market outcomes among a sample of thousands of Kenyans during 1998-2016. The current project will extend the panel for an additional four years, through 2020, expanding it to monitor these now fully-fledged adults (aged 26-37 years) as they work and (often) raise their families. The project will gather rich and innovative data on the adults, as well as detailed information on the health, nutrition, and behavioral and cognitive development of their children. The resulting 22-year longitudinal data set will allow the study team to exploit experimental variation to credibly estimate the long-run, and intergenerational, impacts of three distinct interventions that aim to improve youth outcomes. Specifically, the project will interview at least 6,500 adult respondents in the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS), and collect information from 7,200 children aged 3-9. The KLPS sample contains Kenyans who participated in one or more experimental programs providing health investments, skills training, or cash grants. The health study, the Primary School Deworming Program (PSDP), provided deworming medication to rural Kenyan schools starting in 1998. Previous research finds that this intervention had substantial positive impacts on the health, schooling, living standards, labor market hours, and earnings of beneficiaries 10 years after treatment. A subset of PSDP participants additionally took part in a program that provided vocational training vouchers to randomly selected program applicants in 2009-10, and cash grants to a (cross-cutting) randomly selected subpopulation in 2013-14. Initial results provide little evidence of labor market impacts of the vocational training program, but indicate that the cash grants led to large positive impacts on self-employment, business profits, and living standards after one year. The planned data collection will assess long-run persistence of deworming impacts on life outcomes 20 years after treatment, of vocational training after 10 years, and cash grants after 5 years. This project will also estimate the impacts of these interventions among recipients' children, in order to assess the extent to which they can help break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by improving child health and cognitive development. Since the selection of beneficiaries for each program was randomized, the analysis will overcome the key methodological problem of confounding. More accurate information on both the long-term and intergenerational impacts of youth human capital investments is both of great scholarly interest across academic disciplines, and essential for policymakers in Kenya and elsewhere attempting to assess the societal benefits and cost-effectiveness of programs that aim to improve youth health, human capital and living standards.

项目概要/摘要该项目将扩展一个或多个参与者的纵向（面板）数据集儿童和青少年时期的随机健康、技能培训和金融资本干预。这现有数据集（在之前 NIH/NICHD 资助的部分支持下收集）包含详细信息样本中的健康、教育、营养、人口、社会和劳动力市场结果 1998 年至 2016 年期间有数千名肯尼亚人。当前的项目将把小组的时间再延长四年，到 2020 年，将其扩大到监测这些现已成熟的成年人（26-37 岁）的工作和（经常）抚养他们的家庭。该项目将收集有关成年人的丰富且创新的数据以及详细信息儿童的健康、营养、行为和认知发展。由此产生的22年纵向数据集将使研究团队能够利用实验变化来可靠地估计长期、旨在改善青年成果的三种不同干预措施的代际影响。具体来说，该项目将采访肯尼亚生活小组调查（KLPS）中至少 6,500 名成年受访者，收集7200名3-9岁儿童的信息。 KLPS 样本包含参加过一项或多项提供健康投资、技能培训或现金补助的实验计划。健康状况研究，小学驱虫计划（PSDP），为肯尼亚农村学校提供驱虫药物从 1998 年开始。之前的研究发现这种干预措施对健康产生了实质性的积极影响，治疗 10 年后受益人的受教育程度、生活水平、劳动力市场工作时间和收入。一个子集的 PSDP 参与者还参加了一项随机提供职业培训券的计划 2009-10 年选定的计划申请人，并向（跨领域）随机选择的亚人群提供现金补助 2013-14 年。初步结果几乎没有提供职业培训计划对劳动力市场影响的证据，但表明现金补助对个体经营、企业利润和生活产生了巨大的积极影响一年后达到标准。计划的数据收集将评估驱虫影响的长期持续性治疗后20年的生活结果，10年后的职业培训，5年后的现金补助。该项目还将评估这些干预措施对受助者子女的影响，以便评估它们可以在多大程度上通过改善儿童健康来帮助打破贫困的代际传递和认知发展。由于每个计划的受益人选择是随机的，因此分析将克服混杂的关键方法论问题。更准确的长期信息青年人力资本投资的代际影响引起了学术界的极大兴趣学术学科，对于肯尼亚和其他试图评估社会状况的政策制定者至关重要旨在改善青年健康、人力资本和生活水平的计划的效益和成本效益。