Do lower birth weight babies have lower grades? Twin fixed effect and instrumental variable method evidence from Taiwan

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1780-1787

  Lin, Ming Jen ^a   Liu, Jin Tan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Education; Instrumental variables; Lower birth weight; School grades; Taiwan; Twin fixed effect; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; BODY MASS; DATA SET; EDUCATION; HEALTH WORKER; PUBLIC HEALTH; WEIGHT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BUDGET; CHINESE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCHOOL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN; TWINS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 65249114234     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.031     Document Type: Article

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