| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21354 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21354 |
| Birth Weight in the Long Run | |
| Prashant Bharadwaj; Petter Lundborg; Dan-Olof Rooth | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-07-13 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926- 1958, containing information on birth weight, to administrative records spanning nearly entire life time lab or market histories. We find that birth weight positively affects permanent income and income across large parts of the life cycle, although there is some evidence of a fade out after age 50. Our results indicate that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which enables us to study how the impact of birth weight on income and education of young adults has changed across cohorts born almost 50 years apart. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21354 |
| 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/579026 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Prashant Bharadwaj,Petter Lundborg,Dan-Olof Rooth. Birth Weight in the Long Run. 2015. |
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