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dc.contributor.authorKumar, Santosh
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-13T04:06:45Z
dc.date.available2020-03-13T04:06:45Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-02
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/22934
dc.descriptionBirth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India by Prof. Santosh Kumar, Sam Houston State University, Texas on Monday, December 2, 2019en_US
dc.description.abstractHealth at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases cognitive test score by 8.1 percent or 0.11 standard deviations at ages 5-8 years. Low birth weight infants experienced a lower test score compared with normal birth weight infants. The positive effect of birth weight on a cognitive test score is larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings.en_US
dc.publisherIndian Institute of Management Ahmedabaden_US
dc.subjectCognitive Developmenten_US
dc.subjectHuman capital developmenten_US
dc.titleBirth weight and cognitive development during childhood: evidence from Indiaen_US
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