Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Health Economics

Volume

32

Abstract

We examine the role of early childhood health in human capital accumulation. Using a unique data set from Ghana with comprehensive information on individual, family, community, school quality characteristics and a direct measure of intelligence together with test scores, we examine the long-term cognitive effects of the 1983 famine on survivors. We show that differences in intelligence test scores can be robustly explained by the differential impact of the famine in different parts of the country and the impacts are most severe for children under two years of age during the famine. We also account for model uncertainty by using Bayesian Model Averaging.

Issue

6

First Page

1013

Last Page

1027

DOI

10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.08.001

ISSN

0167-6296

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