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Title: Maternal Prenatal Substance Use and Behavioral Problems among Children in the U.S.
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Sen, Bisakha Swaminathan, Shailender |
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Maternal Prenatal Substance Use and Behavioral Problems among Children in the U.S. Presented: Philadelphia, PA, American Economic Association Meeting, January 2005. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2005/0109_1300_0502.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Canada, Canadian; Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY); Cross-national Analysis; Mothers, Health; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Smoking (see Cigarette Use) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this project, we aim to investigate whether there is a causal effect of prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol consumption on children's behavior. We plan to use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, a large, national dataset which provides longitudinal information on behavior problems of children at different ages, the mother's health behavior including substance use during pregnancy, and extensive information on other familial socio-economic characteristics. We aim to do the analyses separately for prenatal cigarette use and alcohol use, and to also investigate whether the effects on children's behavior change as the children grow older. ...In our preliminary analyses, we use data between 1986-1998. We confine our sample to children born in 1981 or later,3 for whom BPI percentile scores are available for at least one interview year. For each child, we only use the first year of data for which the BPI percentile scores are available. |
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Sen, Bisakha and Shailender Swaminathan. "Maternal Prenatal Substance Use and Behavioral Problems among Children in the U.S." Presented: Philadelphia, PA, American Economic Association Meeting, January 2005. |