Seminar prof. Maarten Lindeboom

["Barbara Piazzi" < >]

Dear All,

tomorrow, Friday October 25^th at 10.00 in classroom A, Prof. Maarten Lindeboom (Free U. Amsterdam) will give a seminar on: "A Bit of Salt, A Trace of Life: Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children".

Abstract
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation we find strong positive effects on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within province, village level variation in gender attitudes confirm the importance of parental gender preferences. Consequently, large scale programs can have positive (and possibly) unintended effects on gender equality in societies with son preference.

Kind regards

 

Joanna Kopinska

 

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CEIS 
University of Rome Tor Vergata
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