From the Cradle to the Labour Market? [electronic resource] : The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes. CEE DP 61 / Sandra E. Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell Salvanes.

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one year 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-me...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	Youngblood, Sandra Black, Devereux, Paul (Author), Salvanes, Kjell (Author)
Corporate Author:	Centre for the Economics of Education (Great Britain)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2006.
Subjects:	Body Weight. Educational Attainment. Mortality Rate. Labor Market. Social Indicators. Foreign Countries. Twins. Body Composition. Intelligence Quotient. Gender Differences. Socioeconomic Status. Family Characteristics. Genetics. Poverty. Family Income.