The Impact of Child Health and Family Inputs on Child Cognitive Develop-ment / Robert Kaestner, Hope Corman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaestner, Robert.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Corman, Hope.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5257.

NBER working paper series no. w5257

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development.

Mother and child.

Infants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995.

Summary:

In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive achievement of children between the ages of five and nine. We estimate both cross sectional and fixed effects models using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Several of our results challenge the conclusions found in the existing literature. First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development. Second, we find that additional maternal schooling does not improve child cognitive achievement. Finally, our estimates of the effect of mother's labor force participation suggest that working has a positive impact on child cognitive achievement.

Notes:

Print version record

September 1995.