The long-term and intergenerational effects of early-life hunger experience on human capital and labor market outcomes |
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Institution: | 1. School of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, China;2. China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research, Central University of Finance and Economics, China |
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Abstract: | Using individual-level retrospective data on early-life hunger experience from China, we investigate the long-term effects of early nutritional deprivation on one's own and adult children's human capital and labor market outcomes. With an instrumental variable approach, we find that hunger experience lowers educational attainment and job quality of the first generation. But this negative impact on human capital does not transmit to the second generation, possibly due to parents' compensatory behavior of human capital investment and extra attention given to children. Our findings imply that the negative impact of non-extreme nutritional adversities on human capital and labor market outcomes are likely to decrease over generations. |
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