@article{Yamauchi:56119,
      recid = {56119},
      author = {Yamauchi, Futoshi},
      title = {Early Childhood Nutrition, Schooling, and Sibling  Inequality in a Dynamic Context: Evidence from South  Africa},
      address = {2006},
      number = {583-2016-39693},
      series = {FCND Discussion Paper},
      pages = {45},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {This paper examines the effects of early childhood  nutrition on schooling inputs
and outcomes to assess the  dynamic nature of human capital production, using panel  data
from South Africa. Height-for-age Z-score is used as a  measure of health and nutritional
status in early  childhood. Based on a comparison of siblings, this analysis  concludes that
improving children’s health significantly  lowers the age when they start school, increases
grade  attainment, and decreases grade repetition in the early  stage of schooling.
However, this positive effect  diminishes at later stages. The results also show  that
households allocate more of their resources (such as  school fee expenditure) to healthy
children at the early  stage, although wealthier households may invest more in  less well
endowed children in an attempt to reduce sibling  inequality. However, fewer resources
are allocated to  healthy children at later stages. By the time of transition  from primary to
secondary school, the healthy child can  increase household income by seeking
employment in the  labor market. In other words, while health capital augments  the
efficiency of investment in schooling at the early  stage, it may increase opportunity costs
at the later  stage, which may deter investment in schooling.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/56119},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.56119},
}