TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kaestner,Robert
AU  - Corman,Hope
TI  - The Impact of Child Health and Family Inputs on Child Cognitive Develop-ment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5257
PY  - 1995
Y2  - September 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5257
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5257.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert Kaestner
Institute of Government and Public Affairs
University of Illinois
815 West Van Buren Street, Suite 525
Chicago, IL  60607
Tel: 312/996-8227
E-Mail: kaestner.robert@gmail.com

Hope Corman
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Tel: 609/895-5559
Fax: 609/896-5387
E-Mail: corman@rider.edu
AB  - In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive achievement of children between the ages of five and nine.  We estimate both cross sectional and fixed effects models using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.  Several of our results challenge the conclusions found in the existing literature.  First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development.  Second, we find that additional maternal schooling does not improve child cognitive achievement.  Finally, our estimates of the effect of mother's labor force participation suggest that working has a positive impact on child cognitive achievement.
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