NDLI: Parental investment responses to a low birth weight outcome: who compensates and who reinforces?

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Restrepo, Brandon J.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	This study analyzes how parental investment responds to a low birth weight (LBW) outcome and finds important differences in investment responses by maternal education. High school dropouts reinforce a LBW outcome by providing less investment in the human capital of their LBW children relative to their normal birth weight children whereas higher educated mothers compensate by investing more in their LBW children. In addition, an increase in the number of LBW siblings present in the home raises investment in a child, which is consistent with reinforcement, but this positive effect tends to be concentrated among high school dropouts. These results suggest that studies analyzing the effects of LBW on child outcomes that do not account for heterogeneity in investment responses to a LBW outcome by maternal education may overestimate effects of LBW on child outcomes for those born to low-educated mothers and underestimate such effects for those born to high-educated mothers.
Starting Page	969
Ending Page	989
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09331433
Journal	Journal of Population Economics
Volume Number	29
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	14321475
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2016-03-30
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Parental investment Human capital Low birth weight Education Income Population Economics Labor Economics Demography Social Policy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography Economics and Econometrics

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Parental leave policies, intra-household time allocations and children’s human capital

The response of household parental investment to child endowments

Left behind: intergenerational transmission of human capital in the midst of HIV/AIDS

Compensating for unequal parental investments in schooling

Legalization and human capital accumulation

Strategic parenting, birth order, and school performance

Intergenerational income immobility in Finland: contrasting roles for parental earnings and family income

The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital, and work orientation across immigrant generations

Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses: evidence from a German reform

Parental investment responses to a low birth weight outcome: who compensates and who reinforces?

Similar Documents

Parental leave policies, intra-household time allocations and children’s human capital

The response of household parental investment to child endowments

Left behind: intergenerational transmission of human capital in the midst of HIV/AIDS

Compensating for unequal parental investments in schooling

Legalization and human capital accumulation

Strategic parenting, birth order, and school performance

Intergenerational income immobility in Finland: contrasting roles for parental earnings and family income

The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital, and work orientation across immigrant generations

Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses: evidence from a German reform

Parental investment responses to a low birth weight outcome: who compensates and who reinforces?