%0 Report
        %A Salm, Martin
%A Schunk, Daniel
        %T The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3646
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3646
        %X We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions – diagnosed by government physicians – can account for developmental gaps between the children of college educated parents and those of less educated parents. In total, health conditions explain 18% of the gap in cognitive ability and 65% of that in language ability, based on estimations with sibling fixed effects. Thus, policies aimed at reducing disparities in child achievement should also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children.
        %K human capital formation
%K health inequality
%K intergenerational mobility
%K childhood health