Parental compensatory behaviors and early child health outcomes in Cebu, Philippines.

A dynamic optimization model of parents choosing investments in their children's health motivates an empirical model of parents' choices of health inputs for their children and the impacts of these decisions on their children's subsequent health. Estimates of the child health input demand functions...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Economics Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 209 - 231
Main Authors:	Liu, Haiyong, Mroz, Thomas, Adair, Linda
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier Science November 2009
Subjects:	Parent-child relationships Children's health Mathematical models Children Philippines
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost