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Li, Kai Poirier, Dale J. |
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Relationship Between Maternal Behavior During Pregnancy, Birth Outcome, and Early Childhood Development: An Exploratory Study Working Paper 1030, CESifo Working Paper, Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia, 2003. Also: http://ideas.repec.org/p/ces/ceswps/_1030.html Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: CESifo Group Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Bayesian; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birth Outcomes; Birthweight; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Endogeneity; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines the relationship between maternal behavior during pregnancy, birth outcomes, and early childhood development. Specifically, in the context of four measures of maternal behavior during pregnancy (maternal smoking, drinking, prenatal care, and maternal weight gain), three measures of birth outcome (gestational age, birth length, and birth weight), and 32 exogenous covariates observed during pregnancy, we investigate the importance of maternal choices during pregnancy and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child math/reading test score at age five or six. Strikingly, birth outcomes have virtually no structural/causal effects on early childhood developmental outcomes, and only maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy have some effects on child height. Not surprisingly, family child-rearing environment has sizeable negative and positive effects on behavioral problems index and math/reading test score, respectively, and a mildly surprising negative effect on child height. |
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Li, Kai and Dale J. Poirier. "Relationship Between Maternal Behavior During Pregnancy, Birth Outcome, and Early Childhood Development: An Exploratory Study." Working Paper 1030, CESifo Working Paper, Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia, 2003. |