Endowments at Birth and Parents’ Investments in Children

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant

doi:10.1111/ecoj.12186

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“…This paper also relates to the literature that found evidence of peer effects in weight (Yakusheva, Kapinos, & Eisenberg, ) and in fitness (Carrell, Hoekstra, & West, ) among a different set of peers—fellow college students. This paper also contributes to the broader literature on sibling spillovers in health and health‐care utilization, for example, Altonji, Cattan, and Ware (), Breining, Daysal, Simonsen, and Trandafir (), Adhvaryu and Nyshadham (), and Ho ().…”

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“…These have been interpreted as “high” levels of homophily among siblings in health behaviors (Daw, Margolis, & Verdery, ). In addition, numerous studies have examined potential spillovers across siblings related to substance use (Altonji, Cattan, & Ware, ), birth weight (Breining, Daysal, Simonsen, & Trandafir, ), iodine supplementation (Adhvaryu & Nyshadham, ), and illness symptoms (Ho, ).…”

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Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture

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A large literature has documented strong positive correlations among siblings in health, including body mass index (BMI) and obesity. This paper tests whether that is explained by a specific type of peer effect in obesity: genetic nurture. Specifically, we test whether an individual's weight is affected by the genes of their sibling, controlling for the individual's own genes. Using genetic data in Add Health, we find no credible evidence that an individual's BMI is affected by the polygenic risk score for BMI of their full sibling when controlling for the individual's own polygenic risk score for BMI. Thus, we find no evidence that the positive correlations in BMI between siblings are attributable to genetic nurture within families.

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Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture

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“…Finally, there may be differential investment behaviour by parents (Almond & Mazumder, ; Adhvaryu & Nyshadham, ). For example, the less well‐off twin (in terms of lower birth weight) may be provided with more health care.…”

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How much does birth weight matter for child health in developing countries? Estimates from siblings and twins

McGovern

2018

Health Economics

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About 200 million children globally are not meeting their growth potential, and as a result will suffer the consequences in terms of future outcomes. I examine the effects of birth weight on child health and growth using information from 66 countries. I account for missing data and measurement error using instrumental variables and adopt an identification strategy based on siblings and twins. I find a consistent effect of birth weight on mortality risk, stunting, wasting, and coughing, with some evidence for fever, diarrhoea, and anaemia. Bounds analysis indicates that coefficients may be substantially underestimated due to mortality selection. Improving the pre‐natal environment is likely to be important for helping children reach their full potential.

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“…First, we add to the empirical evidence on whether parental investments mitigate or reinforce early life shocks and, if so, how effectively. Recent work has suggested that parental investments are mostly reinforcing (Adhvaryu and Nyshadham 2016;Almond and Mazumder 2013) and that the investments made early in life are particularly productive (Cunha et al 2010;Bharadwaj et al 2013). We do not find strong evidence of reinforcing investments, as Southern mothers invest less in vaccination years of higher oil prices.…”

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Oil and ethnic inequality in Nigeria

Fenske

Zurimendi²

2017

J Econ Growth

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Although it is known that ethnic biases exist in Africa, less is known about how these respond to natural resource prices. Many ethnically fragmented African countries depend on a small number commodities for their export base. Oil prices experienced in early life predict differential adult outcomes across Nigerian ethnic groups. Our differencein-difference approach compares members of southern ethnicities to other Nigerians from the same birth cohort. This North-South distinction mirrors several economic, political, and religious cleavages in the country. Greater prices in a southern individual's birth year predict several relative outcomes, including reduced fertility, delayed marriage, higher probabilities of working and having a skilled occupation, greater schooling, lower height, and greater BMI. These microeconomic impacts are explained by macroeconomic responses to oil prices; relatively, urban incomes increase, food production declines, and maternal labor intensifies in the South.

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Endowments at Birth and Parents’ Investments in Children

Cited by 72 publications

References 32 publications

Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture

Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture

How much does birth weight matter for child health in developing countries? Estimates from siblings and twins

Oil and ethnic inequality in Nigeria

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