Returns to Birthweight

By Jere r. Behrman, Mark R. Rosenzweig. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. Abhijit Banerjee
2. Esther Duflo
3. Francesco Caselli
4. Daron Acemoglu
5. Anders Björklund
6. Kjell G. Salvanes
7. Uwe Sunde
8. J. Ermisch

In Safety Research

1. Esther Duflo
2. Abhijit Banerjee
3. Daron Acemoglu
4. Francesco Caselli
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6. Sandra E. Black
7. Anders Björklund
8. Kjell G. Salvanes

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2. Abhijit Banerjee
3. Sandra E. Black
4. P. Devereux
5. Daron Acemoglu
6. Kjell G. Salvanes
7. Gilles Postel-Vinay
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Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Birth Inputs on Birthweight (2008, background): “LBW babies are also more likely to have inferior labor-market outcomes, being more likely to be unemployed and earn lower wages (Currie and Hyson 1999; Behrman and Rosenzweig 2004; Case, Fertig, and Paxon 2005).”
• Origins of Social Immobility and Inequality: Parenting and Early Child Development (2008, background): “Other studies suggest that the small short-run effects may be misleading, because larger birth weight babies have better long-run outcomes (Behrman and Rosenzweig, 2004; Black et al., 2005; and Royer, 2005), although there is not consensus on the size of these effects.”
• Race as a Bundle of Sticks: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics (2016, background): “…like access to food stamps, can positively influence intrauterine nutrition, birth weight, neonatal mortality, adult schooling attainment, height, and, for lower-birth weight babies, labor market payoffs (Almond, Hoynes, and Schanzenbach 2011; Behrman and Rosenzweig 2004; Conley and Strully 2012).”
• Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children (2010, neutral): “…birth weight (LBW) than singletons, but the question of whether this matters for adult outcomes remains controversial (see, e.g Almond et al., 2005; Behrman and Rosenzweig, 2004; Conley, 2006; 28 C. Combining 2+, 3+, 4+, and 5+ Samples To further increase precision we also pooled estimates across…”
• Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall. (2009, neutral): “(Behrman and Rosenzweig 2004; Alderman, et al. 2006).”
• Human Capital Development before Age Five. NBER Working Paper No. 15827. (2010, neutral): “Using a comparable sample size, Behrman and Rosenzweig [2004] found the schooling of identical female twins was nearly one-third of a year longer for a pound increase in birth weight (454 grams), with relatively imprecise effects on adult BMI or wages.”