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Title: Birth Weight, Math and Reading Achievement Growth: A Multilevel Between-Sibling, Between-Families Approach
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1. Goosby, Bridget J.
Cheadle, Jacob E.
Birth Weight, Math and Reading Achievement Growth: A Multilevel Between-Sibling, Between-Families Approach
Social Forces 87,3 (March 2009): 1291-1320.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40345162
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keyword(s): Academic Development; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birthweight; Educational Attainment; Family Environment; Family Studies; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Multilevel; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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We used multilevel covariance structure analysis to study the relationship between birth weight, family context and youth math and reading comprehension growth from approximately ages 5 through 14 within and between families. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child Sample, we examined the relationship between birth weight and subsequent academic achievement growth disparities, distinguishing between birth weight and other contextual social confounders. We found that smaller birth weight is associated with lower math and reading scores at age 5. Additional findings indicated that the home environment has important developmental consequences from early childhood and into adolescence. Overall, the pattern of findings painted a complex picture of disadvantage, beginning in the womb and extending through a variety of mechanisms into adolescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Goosby, Bridget J. and Jacob E. Cheadle. "Birth Weight, Math and Reading Achievement Growth: A Multilevel Between-Sibling, Between-Families Approach." Social Forces 87,3 (March 2009): 1291-1320.