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From the cradle to the labor market? : the effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar
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2005-11
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Abstract
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of oneyear

mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings.

However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important

or whether it simply reflects other hard-to-measure characteristics. By applying within

twin techniques using a unique dataset from Norway, we examine both short-run and

long-run outcomes for the same cohorts. We find that birth weight does matter; very

small short-run fixed effect estimates can be misleading because longer-run effects on

outcomes such as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in

magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest that eliminating birth weight

differences between socio -economic groups would have sizeable effects on the later

outcomes of children from poorer families.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2005:23

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