Trinh, T.-A., Srivastava, P. and Brown, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-4853-9115 (2022) Household expenditure and child health in Vietnam: analysis of longitudinal data. Journal of Demographic Economics, 88 (3). ISSN 2054-0892
Abstract
While the relationship between socioeconomic status and child health has been studied extensively in developed countries, evidence is limited for developing countries. This study makes an important contribution by examining the relationship between child health and household socioeconomic status in Vietnam, using household expenditure as an alternative measure. This also allows us to explore the mechanisms via which income affects child health, in which household consumption arguably plays a crucial role. We employ different measures of health that allow us to examine both long-run and short-run effects, and two alternative instrumental variables, the unemployment rate and rainfall deviation, to address the potential endogeneity of household expenditure. We find evidence of a strong positive impact of household expenditure on child health and the findings are consistent across age groups. Specifically, a 10% increase in expenditure will result in a weight gain of 213–541 g in a “typical” child. We also explore the effect of a range of exogenous adverse economic shocks on children's health.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Université catholique de Louvain. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Demographic Economics. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | BMI; Child Health; Household Expenditure; Socioeconomic Status; Vietnam |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2020 09:48 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2024 14:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/dem.2020.24 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164578 |