Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …