Essays on health at birth, financial literacy and educational outcomes

• Autor(a) principal: Furtado, Isabela Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/24039
• topic: Financial literacy; Birth weight; Education; Alfabetização financeira; Peso ao nascer; Educação; Economia; Educação financeira; Crianças e violência - Brasil; Crianças - Nutrição; Educação

This thesis consists of three essays related to microeconomics applied to health and education. The first chapter analyses a large-scale experimental impact evaluation of a financial education pilot program for students from public primary schools in two Brazilian cities. The second chapter estimates effects of birth weight on health and educational outcomes using a twin fixed effect approach for Brazil, using a matching of administrative records of birth and school enrollment. The third chapter explores the effects of prenatal exposure to a violent environment on birth weight and investigates whether the in-utero and early life violence shocks can have further impacts, particularly on schooling accumulation.