Childhood Health and Human Capital: New Evidence from Genetic Brothers in Arms
利用二战服役兄弟的新数据集，研究发现20世纪上半叶儿童健康改善显著提高了教育获得，且家庭内部健康差异的影响在控制家庭和环境特征后依然成立。
Negative shocks to childhood health can have a lasting impact on the economic success of an individual by altering families' schooling investment decisions. This article introduces a new dataset of brothers serving in World War II and uses it to demonstrate that improvements in childhood health led to substantial increases in educational attainment in the first one-half of the twentieth century. By exploiting variation in health within families, the data show that this relationship between childhood health and educational attainment holds even after controlling for both observed and unobserved household and environmental characteristics.