Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147536 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 1052
Publisher: 
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health. We find that investments are very important determinants of child cognition and of health at an earlier age. We also find that inputs are complementary and crucially that health is very important in determining cognition. Our paper contributes in understanding how early health outcomes are important in child development.
Subjects: 
Human Capital
Child Development
India
Intergenerational Transmission
JEL: 
I14
I15
I25
I32
J13
J24
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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