Mothers' school starting age and infant health

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• dc.contributor.author Borra, Cristina
• dc.contributor.author González, Libertad
• dc.contributor.author Patiño, David
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-25T06:57:52Z
• dc.date.available 2024-03-25T06:57:52Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description.abstract We study the effects of women's school starting age on the infant health of their offspring. In Spain, children born in December start school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially the same age. We follow a regression discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the children of women born in January versus the previous December, using administrative, population-level data. We find small and insignificant effects on average weight at birth, but, compared to the children of December-born mothers, the children of January-born mothers are more likely to have very low birthweight. We then show that January-born women have the same educational attainment and the same partnership dynamics as December-born women. However, they finish school later and are (several months) older when they have their first child. Our results suggest that maternal age is a plausible mechanism behind our estimated impacts of school starting age on infant health.
• dc.description.sponsorship Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion. Grant Numbers: RTI2018-098217-B-I00, PID2022-141375OB-I00. H2020 European Research Council. Grant Number: CoG MISSINGMIDDLE-770958. Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación. Grant Number: CEX2019- 000915-S
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• dc.identifier.citation Borra C, González L, Patiño D. Mothers' school starting age and infant health. Health Economics. 2024 Feb 11;1-39. DOI: 10.1002/hec.4809
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.4809
• dc.identifier.issn 1057-9230
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59543
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Health Economics. 2024 Feb 11;1-39
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/770958
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/RTI2018-098217-B-I00
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2022-141375OB-I00
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/CEX2019-000915-S
• dc.rights © 2024 The Authors. Health Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Infant health
• dc.subject.keyword Intergenerational effects
• dc.subject.keyword Maternal age
• dc.subject.keyword School cohort
• dc.subject.keyword School starting age
• dc.title Mothers' school starting age and infant health
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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