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The Multigenerational Impacts of Educational Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam.
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Region
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Country
Vietnam
Policy Area
Policy
Authors
Cornelissen, Thomas, and Thang Dang.
Year
2022
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Form of exploitation
Child Labour
Affected group
Households
Location
National
Result on Child labour
The law on compulsory schooling led to increases in non-agricultural economic activity and a reduction in child labour.
Other results
The expansion of school years increased educational attainment, literacy, earnings and the intergenerational educational mobility. It increased human capital investments in the children of the directly affected generation, with increased educational expenditures, school enrollment, and health investments. Moreover, the expansion improved health in old age of the parents of the directly affected generation, an effect that seems to operate through increased financial resources, access to private health insurance and reduced alcohol consumption.
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