Parental chronic illness and child education: Evidence from children in Indonesia

The Effect of Health Shock and Basic Medical Insurance on Family Educational Investment for Children in China

“…This effect is particularly pronounced for girls. Using two waves (2007, 2014) of Indonesian Family Life Survey data, Reference [ 12 ] has investigated the effects of parental chronic illness on the educational attainment of children in Indonesia. Their results show that girls whose fathers experienced chronic illness for longer durations achieved significantly lower educational levels between 2007 and 2014 than did children in the same age cohort with healthy parents.…”

“…The existing literature has conducted in-depth research on the interactions among health shock, medical insurance, and family education decision-making. With respect to the existing literature, this paper makes two contributions: First, the existing literature [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ] has used the enrollment rate as a measure of family education decision-making, but given that China’s primary and junior high school enrollment rate is close to 100% (according to the statistical monitoring report of China’s children development program (2011–2020) issued by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2019, the net enrollment rate of primary school-age children was 99.95%, the gross enrollment rate in junior middle school was 100.9%, and the population coverage rate in 9-year compulsory education reached 100%), this variable will no longer be applicable in China. With a theoretical model and empirical model, this paper uses education expenditure as a measure of family education decision to improve research in this field.…”