TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shakotko,Robert A.
AU  - Edwards,Linda N.
AU  - Grossman,Michael
TI  - An Exploration of the Dynamic Relationship between Health and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 454
PY  - 1982
Y2  - March 1982
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0454
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0454.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert A. Shakotko

Linda N.. Edwards

Michael Grossman
Ph.D. Program in Economics
City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY  10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7959
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu
AB  - This paper is an empirical exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in a longitudinal data set compiled from two nationally representative cross-sections of children. Our results indicate that there is feedback both from health to cognitive development and from cognitive development to health, but the latter of these relationships is stronger. They also indicate that estimates of family background effects taken from the dynamic model  -- which can be assumed to be less influenced by genetic factors are smaller than their cross-sectional counterparts, but some still remain statistically significant. The first finding calls attention to the existence of a continuing inter-action between health and cognitive development over the life cycle. The second finding suggests that nurture "matters" in cognitive development and health outcomes.
ER  -