Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins / Phil Oreopoulos, Mark Stabile, Randy Walld, Leslie Roos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oreopoulos, Phil.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Stabile, Mark.

Walld, Randy.

Roos, Leslie.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11998.

NBER working paper series no. w11998

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infant health services--Econometric models.

Infant health services.

Infants--Development.

Infants.

Infants--Health and hygiene.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.

Summary:

We use administrative data on a sample of births between 1978 and 1985 to investigate the short, medium and long-term consequences of poor infant health. Our findings offer several advances to the existing literature on the effects of early infant health on subsequent health, education, and labor force attachment. First, we use a large sample of both siblings and twins, second we use a variety of measures of infant health, and finally we track children through their schooling years and into the labor force. Our findings suggest that poor infant health is a strong predictor of educational and labor force outcomes. In particular, infant health is found to predict both high school completion and social assistance (welfare) take-up and length.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [27]-28).

OCLC:

63516126

Publisher Number:

204593 CaOOCEL (Public Documents)