The multigenerational impacts of educational expansion: Evidence from Vietnam
研究了越南小学扩建项目对直接受影响一代及其子女和父母的多代影响,发现该项目提升了教育、收入、代际流动,并改善了子女的人力资本投资和父母的老年健康。
We investigate the multigenerational effects of a primary school expansion program in Vietnam. In the directly affected generation, the expansion increases educational attainment, literacy, non-agricultural economic activity, earnings and the intergenerational educational mobility. It increases human capital investments in the children of the directly affected generation, with increased educational expenditures, school enrollment, and health investments, and a reduction in child labor. Moreover, the expansion improves health in old age of the parents of the directly affected generation, an effect that seems to operate through increased financial resources, access to private health insurance and reduced alcohol consumption.