2021
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-021-01332-x
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The role of health at birth and parental investment in early child development: evidence from the French ELFE cohort

Abstract: This paper combines a theoretical and an empirical approach to address how health at birth aects child development? Using a simple theoretical model in which parents invest in their children, we identify the mechanisms through which better health at birth can improve child development. We also emphasise how parental socioeconomic status can shape the eects of health at birth. We perform an empirical analysis on a French cohort of children born in 2011, using a unique dataset ELFE. We identify the eect of birth… Show more

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