Endowments at Birth and Parents' Investments in Children.
Do parents invest more in higher quality children, or do they compensate for lower quality by giving more to children with lower endowments? We answer this question in the context of a large-scale iodine supplementation programme in Tanzania. We find that children with higher programme exposure were more likely to receive necessary vaccines and were breastfed for longer. Siblings of treated children were also more likely to be immunised. Fertility behavior and investments at the time of birth were unaffected.
University of Michigan Ross School of Business: 701 Tappan St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109; adhvaryu@umich.edu achadhvaryu.com.
Achyuta
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Adhvaryu
University of Southern California Department of Economics, nyshadha@usc.edu anantnyshadham.com.
Anant
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Nyshadham
Tanzania; child health; endowments; intra-household resource allocation; parental investments