Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259847 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2001:7
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
This paper analyses, both theoretically and empirically, women's health choices and their effects on child health for a sample of rural households in Cebu, Philippines. The present study differs from other studies by analysing separately prenatal and postnatal determinants of child health both under certainty and uncertainty, hence introducing the possibility of different health production functions before and after birth. An approach that is well in line with recent research in nutrition and epidemiology. Theoretically, the model predicts that the larger the probability of survival the less is spent on child specific health inputs after birth. That is, the less money need to be spent on compensating the child for a "bad start" in life. Empirically, the results show that family specific health endowments may explain a large part of the child's health, that water and sanitation are important for child health, and that smoking has a significant and negative effect on the health of the child after birth.
Subjects: 
Philippines
Child Health
Health Production Function
Uncertainty
Water and Sanitation
JEL: 
I12
I31
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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