Does More Schooling Make Women Better Nourished and Healthier? Adult Sibling Random and Fixed Effects Estimates for Nicaragua
利用尼加拉瓜成年姐妹数据，通过随机和固定效应模型控制童年背景因素，发现女性教育对其健康和营养摄入有正向影响，且营养摄入的结果尤为稳健。
There is debate on whether schooling causes increases in productivity or whether the estimated relationships reflect ability, knowledge, tastes etc., that are associated with schooling. This paper examines the impact of women's schooling on women's health and nutrition with and without controls for unobserved childhood background factors related to ability and motivation. Random and fixed effects models are estimated using data on adult sisters. Both sets of estimates reinforce the relationships found in standard estimates-that women's schooling positively affects their health and nutrient intakes; the latter result is particularly robust.