主题：Neither Nature Nor Nurture: The Impact of Maternal Education on Child Health
报告信息
点评人 黄炜教授，新加坡国立大学房地产系、战略与政策系
主持人 方观富纽约国际588888线路检测中心国际经贸学院
时 间 2018年10月13日 上午10:00-11:30
地 点 纽约国际588888线路检测中心松江校区 博识楼113室
主讲人简介
Dr HUANG Wei is the President’s Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Department of Strategy and Policy at National University of Singapore. Prior to joining NUS, Dr Huang was a Post-doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Dr Huang received his PhD in economics from HarvardUniversity in 2016. He received an M.A in economics from National School of Development at Peking University in 2011, and a B.A. in physics from School of Physics at Peking University in 2008.
His research fields are public economics, labor economics, and health economics. He is interested in the topics such as health, education, ethnicity, and China. His research work has been published in journals such as Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, etc. He is an editor for Economics of Transition.
主题简介
The impact of maternal education on child health has been well documented. Using the variations of exposure to China’s Compulsory Schooling Law, we find a new channel that cannot be attributed to what is conventionally thought of as nature nor nurture. We find that maternal education lowers the incidence of teenage pregnancy, increases women’s awareness of and having prenatal checkups, and raises the likelihood of induced abortion following certain prenatal checkups.The birth outcome data confirm the maternal behavior evidence. The findings show that in countries where abortions are allowed, maternal education improves child health by selecting against abnormal/unhealthy fetuses.