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Title: Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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1. Johnston, David W.
Nicholls, Michael
Shah, Manisha
Shields, Michael A.
Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 176,4 (October 2013): 841-860. Also:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01074.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Accidents; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Cognitive Development; Digit Span (also see Memory for Digit Span - WISC); Handedness; Injuries; Modeling, Random Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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Using data from the child supplement of the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting three-level random-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test whether left-handed children have different outcomes from those of their right-handed counterparts. The health measures cover both physical health and mental health, and the cognitive development test scores span vocabulary, mathematics, reading and comprehension. Overall we find little evidence to suggest that left-handed children have a significantly higher probability of experiencing injury, illness or behavioural problems. In contrast, we find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than right-handed children for all areas of development with the exception of reading. Moreover, we find no strong evidence that the left-handedness effect differs by gender or age.
Bibliography Citation
Johnston, David W., Michael Nicholls, Manisha Shah and Michael A. Shields. "Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 176,4 (October 2013): 841-860. Also:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01074.x/abstract.