Effects of health on child schooling and cognitive development: The Indirect Effects of Investment in Human Capital

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Ill-health and poor nutrition may have indirect effects on labour productivity by adversely affecting
schooling. Illness often leads to absence from school and nutritional deficiencies can reduce the ability
to learn. Some experimental studies imply substantial benefits from particular interventions. One African
example found positive effects of deworming medication on school attendance and achievement in
Kenya (Jamison and Leslie, 1990). Cross-sectional evidence is more difficult to interpret but still
suggestive. In Ghana, one econometric study attributed delayed primary school enrolment to low heightfor-
age (Glewwe and Jacoby, 1995). A study of Kenya found no effect of height-for-age on children’s
school performance (Sigman, Newman, Jansen and Bwibo, 1989). However, calorie intake did affect
school performance by affecting time off task for girls. Ill-health inhibits school attendance; this may be
true of the ill-health of other household members as well as morbidity of the pupil herself. Adult mortality
- such as that from AIDS - is likely to pose grave threats to the schooling of bereaved children (Ainsworth
and Koda, 1993). In Box 3 the general issues raised by poverty and human resources are discussed.

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