| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w12004 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 12004 |
| Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs: Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions | |
| Nancy E. Reichman; Hope Corman; Kelly Noonan; Dhaval Dave | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-02-06 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement error. We focus on the importance of typically unobserved but theoretically important variables (TUVs), other non-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and characterization of infant health. The TUVs represent wantedness, taste for risky behavior, and maternal health endowment. The NSCs include father and family structure characteristics. We estimate effects of prenatal drug use, prenatal cigarette smoking, and first trimester prenatal care on birth weight, low birth weight, and a measure of abnormal infant health conditions. We compare estimates using self-reported inputs versus input measures that combine information from medical records and self-reports. We find that TUVs and NSCs are significantly associated with both inputs and outcomes, but that excluding them from infant health production functions does not appreciably affect the input estimates. However, using self-reported inputs leads to overestimated effects of inputs, particularly prenatal care, on outcomes, and using a direct measure of infant health does not always yield input estimates similar to those when using birth weight outcomes. The findings have implications for research, data collection, and public health policy. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12004 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/569655 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nancy E. Reichman,Hope Corman,Kelly Noonan,et al. Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs: Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions. 2006. |
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