TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lindeboom, Maarten
AU  - Llena-Nozal, Ana
AU  - Klaauw, Bas van der
        TI  - Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform
        PY  - 2006/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2516
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2516
        AB  - This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that postponing the school leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on child health are at most modest.
        KW  - returns to education
KW  - health
KW  - regression-discontinuity
KW  - intergenerational mobility
        ER  -