| Title: |
Health and Competitiveness in Children: An Experimental Analysis |
| Authors: |
Björn Bartling; Ernst Fehr; Daniel Schunk; Jel-code C I |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=80. |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: |
Doorslaer; Cunha and Heckman; forthcoming; Knudsen et al; 2006) because the formation |
| Time: |
2006 |
| Description: |
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children’s human capital development across different socio-economic groups. However, while this literature focuses on cognitive skills as determinants of human capital, it neglects non-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can explain developmental gaps in children’s non-cognitive skills. Our measure for children’s non-cognitive skills is their willingness to compete with others. We find that health problems are substantially negatively related to children’s willingness to compete. Moreover, we find that the effect of health on competitiveness differs significantly with socio-economic background. Health has a strongly negative effect in our sub-sample with low socio-economic background, whereas the effect is negligible and insignificant in our sub-sample with high socio-economic background. |
| Document Type: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.212.2585; http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=80 |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.212.2585; http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=80 |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.12AF31C3 |
| Database: |
BASE |