TITLE:
The Impact of Parental Entrepreneurship on Children’s Health
AUTHORS:
Hui Wang
KEYWORDS:
Entrepreneurship, Children’s Health, PSM
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.6 No.3,
June
7,
2018
ABSTRACT: Children’s health has always been a concern, under the background of a new
wave of entrepreneurship, this paper uses China health and nutrition survey
(CHNS) data, selects the age of the child height ratio (HAZ) score to measure
children’s health, the OLS regression model, the treatment effect model and
tendency to score matching (PSM), and other methods to investigate the influence
of parents entrepreneurship for children’s health. The study found
that at least one parent business, under the condition of children’s health is
relatively low, the result is in step with the result of whether parents start a
business. In addition, there are gender differences in children’s health; only
children are in better health. The health endowment of parents also has an
impact on children’s health. This article from the perspective of parents entrepreneurship
researches entrepreneurship influence on children’s health,
there are two main mechanisms, the first is money: it brings the income that is
beneficial to children’s health; this article examines the entrepreneurship that
can bring income premium; estimation results show that the venture has a
significant positive effect on monthly income. The second is time: entrepreneurship
to reduce the harm to children’s health care time; estimation results
show that the entrepreneurial significantly reduces the time for children’s
care; two mechanisms are negative; there is a relation of offsetting each other;
parents start-ups do significantly reduce the children’s health level.