Child health disparities, socioeconomic status, and school enrollment decisions : evidence from German elementary school entrance exams

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Autoren
  • Martin Salm
  • Daniel Schunk
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  • metadata
Editoren
  • Daniel Houser
Schlüsselwörter
  • 330 Wirtschaft
  • 330 Economics
Paginierung
Seiten: 271 - 288
Buchtitel
Neuroeconomics
Ort der Veröffentlichung
Amsterdam u.a.
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2008
Herausgeber
Elsevier
Datum der Datenerfassung
2020
Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
2020
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Public
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Child health disparities, socioeconomic status, and school enrollment decisions : evidence from German elementary school entrance exams

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Abstract
<h4>Purpose</h4>This chapter examines the role of child health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital.<h4>Methodology/approach</h4>The chapter uses unique administrative data from German elementary school entrance examinations. The chapter considers child health conditions such as obesity, low birth weight, ear problems, eye problems, behavioral problems, asthma, and allergies. We control for socio-economic and demographic characteristics of children and their parents as well as for institutional factors such as duration of pre-school attendance.<h4>Findings</h4>We find that health conditions are more common among children of less-educated parents. We also find that health conditions have a substantially negative impact on school readiness, and the negative impact is considerably stronger for children of less-educated parents. In total, 55% of the school readiness gap can be attributed to health factors. Specifically, 19% of the gap can be attributed to differences in the prevalence of health conditions, and 36% of the gap can be attributed to differences in the severity of the impact. Thus, policies aimed at reducing disparities in child achievement should also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children.<h4>Originality</h4>First, our study quantifies the extent to which the school readiness gap between parental education groups can be attributed to child health. Second, our data are of extraordinary quality, since they consist of a full sample of all children in one city and since they are collected during detailed examinations that were administered by government pediatricians.
Addresses
  • Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Autoren
  • Martin Salm
  • Daniel Schunk
Open access
false
Schlüsselwörter
  • Humans
  • Physical Examination
  • Health Status Indicators
  • Social Class
  • Child Welfare
  • Schools
  • Child
  • Germany
  • Female
  • Male
  • Health Status Disparities
Medium
Print
Paginierung
271 - 288
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2008
Status
Published
Datum der Datenerfassung
2009
Titel
Child health disparities, socio-economic status, and school enrollment decisions: evidence from German elementary school entrance exams.
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
20

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Abstract
PURPOSE: This chapter examines the role of child health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The chapter uses unique administrative data from German elementary school entrance examinations. The chapter considers child health conditions such as obesity, low birth weight, ear problems, eye problems, behavioral problems, asthma, and allergies. We control for socio-economic and demographic characteristics of children and their parents as well as for institutional factors such as duration of pre-school attendance. FINDINGS: We find that health conditions are more common among children of less-educated parents. We also find that health conditions have a substantially negative impact on school readiness, and the negative impact is considerably stronger for children of less-educated parents. In total, 55% of the school readiness gap can be attributed to health factors. Specifically, 19% of the gap can be attributed to differences in the prevalence of health conditions, and 36% of the gap can be attributed to differences in the severity of the impact. Thus, policies aimed at reducing disparities in child achievement should also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children. ORIGINALITY: First, our study quantifies the extent to which the school readiness gap between parental education groups can be attributed to child health. Second, our data are of extraordinary quality, since they consist of a full sample of all children in one city and since they are collected during detailed examinations that were administered by government pediatricians.
Autoren
  • Martin Salm
  • Daniel Schunk
Autoren-URL
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19552312
Schlüsselwörter
  • Child
  • Child Welfare
  • Female
  • Germany
  • Health Status Disparities
  • Health Status Indicators
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Physical Examination
  • Schools
  • Social Class
Paginierung
271 - 288
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2008
Status
Published
Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
2009
Titel
Child health disparities, socio-economic status, and school enrollment decisions: evidence from German elementary school entrance exams.
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
20

Data source: PubMed

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