讲座人：王一如（State University of New York at Buffalo，博士研究生）
讲座题目：The Impact of Children’s Education on Parents’ Health Change– Evidence from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
讲座时间：2017年12月15日(周五)，10:00-11:30
讲座地点：理科大楼A 1712会议室（中北校区）法商楼516
论文提要：This paper analyzes the intergenerational causal effect from children’s education to parental health outcomes. Using supply-side variation in schooling as instruments for children’s education and a panel data of two years, we find that parents with more educated children are less likely than to those with less educated children to experience deterioration in health as measured by both physical and intellectual activities of daily living. One addition year of adult children’s schooling will reduce parents’ probability of getting worse in ADL, IADL and recalling ability by 5.3, 8.1 and 7.8 percentage points respectively. In addition, more educated children would reduce parents’ chances of getting worse in arthritis, as well as being diagnosed with digest and heart diseases. The estimated effect is larger for older parents. The results are robust to a variety of measures of health and children’s education. We also investigate two possible channels through which children may affect parental health changes. One is health behavior and the other is utilization of health service. We find that parents with more educated children are less likely to drink frequently, smoke heavily, and exercise vigorously. More educated children will also induce parents to have regular physical examinations and receive continuous treatments if having any health conditions.
演讲人简介：Yiru Wang is a PhD candidate in Economics at The State University of New York at Buffalo. She obtained her Bachelor and Master degrees from Nankai University in 2013 before pursing her PhD degree in Buffalo. Her research interests include Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education and Health Economics.