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| Akresh, Richard. |
| Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity of fostering. Data collection by the author involved tracking and interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in of foster children with their non-fostered biological siblings. Foster children are equally likely as their host siblings to be enrolled after fostering and are 3.6 percent more likely to be enrolled than their biological siblings. Relative to children from non-fostering households, host siblings, biological siblings, and foster... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Human capital investment; Child fostering; Household structure; Labor and Human Capital; J12; I20; O15; D10. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28521 |
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| Li, Cuijin. |
| Literatures about the relationship between human capital investment and rural poverty are reviewed. According to the time-series data from 1990 to 2007, VAR model and variance research are used to study the relationship between household human capital investment and rural poverty. Results shows that there is long-run equilibrium relationship between household capital investment and rural poverty. Educational investment and health investment have significant impacts on the alleviation of rural poverty; while migration investment does not have significant impact on the alleviation of rural poverty. Among the factors causing poverty fluctuations, educational investment has greater impacts on poverty fluctuations than health investment in the short run, but... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Human capital investment; Rural poverty; VAR model; China; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101898 |
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