TY  - JOUR
AU  - Oreopoulos,Phil
AU  - Stabile,Mark
AU  - Walld,Randy
AU  - Roos,Leslie
TI  - Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11998
PY  - 2006
Y2  - February 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11998
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11998.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Philip Oreopoulos
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, ON  M5S 3G7
Canada
E-Mail: philip.oreopoulos@utoronto.ca

Mark Stabile
School of Public Policy and Governance
University of Toronto
14 Queen's Park Cres. W.
Toronto, ON M5S 3K9
CANADA
Tel: 416/978-4329
Fax: 416/978-5079
E-Mail: mark.stabile@utoronto.ca

Randy Walld

Leslie L.. Roos
University of Manitoba
E-Mail: Leslie_Roos@cpe.umanitoba.ca
AB  - We use administrative data on a sample of births between 1978 and 1985 to investigate the short, medium and long-term consequences of poor infant health. Our findings offer several advances to the existing literature on the effects of early infant health on subsequent health, education, and labor force attachment. First, we use a large sample of both siblings and twins, second we use a variety of measures of infant health, and finally we track children through their schooling years and into the labor force. Our findings suggest that poor infant health is a strong predictor of educational and labor force outcomes. In particular, infant health is found to predict both high school completion and social assistance (welfare) take-up and length.
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