TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lin,Ming-Jen
AU  - Liu,Jin-Tan
AU  - Chou,Shin-Yi
TI  - As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can 'Good' Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor?  A Research Note.
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12857
PY  - 2007
Y2  - January 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12857
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12857.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ming-Jen Lin
Dept. of Economics
National Taiwan University
21 Hsu-Chow Road, Taipei (100)
Taiwan
E-Mail: mjlin@ntu.edu.tw

Jin-Tan Liu
Department of Economics
National Taiwan University
21 Hsu-Chow Road
Taipei (100), TAIWAN
Tel: 886-2-23519641/520
Fax: 886-2-2351-1826
E-Mail: liujt@ntu.edu.tw

Shin-Yi Chou
Department of Economics
College of Business and Economics
Lehigh University
621 Taylor Street
Bethlehem, PA  18015-3117
Tel:  610/758-3444
Fax: NA
E-Mail: syc2@lehigh.edu
AB  - This research note combines two national Taiwanese datasets to investigate the relationship between low birth weight (LBW) babies, their family background and their future academic outcomes. We find that LBW is negatively correlated with the probability of such children attending university at the age of 18; however, when both parents are college or senior high school graduates, such negative effects may be partially offset. We also show that discrimination against daughters does occur, but only in those cases where the daughters were LBW babies. Moreover, high parental education (HPE) can only buffer the LBW shock among moderately-LBW children (as compared to very-LBW children) and full term-LBW children (as compared to preterm-LBW children).
ER  -