LATER RETURN TO EARLY CHILD HEALTH

对儿童进行早期投资的前提是， 在幼儿期， 儿童健康本身就是一种投资， 孩子的整个未来。这项研究将使人们更全面地了解 家庭在决定儿童早期健康方面的作用 结果以及这些早期结果如何影响后期结果， 认知发展、教育、成人健康和成人社会经济 成功 本研究的两个独特之处在于， 从出生到成功， 它控制着对人力资本的早期投资 当检查后来的结果时。该研究使用了两个数据集，国家 青年纵向调查（NLSY）和收入动态的面板研究 （PSID），以获取延长寿命的全方位结果 家庭该研究还提供了一种新的计量经济学建模方法 多个家庭成员的这些相互关联的行为， 家庭联系的性质以及家庭成员的行为关系 第一兴趣--儿童素质的决定因素。 具体来说，该研究将考虑广泛的儿童结果 包括：（1）婴儿健康-出生体重和早产;（2）儿童期 结局-儿童死亡率、身高别体重和认知测量;以及 (3)成人的结果--教育、健康、职业地位和收入。 这些结果代表了儿童的“质量”的发展， 生命周期，是父母关于资源决定的结果 对儿童的分配和投资，家庭资源的存量，以及 基因禀赋

Early investments in children are made on the premise that the prenatal period through early childhood resent unique opportunities to produce healthy children and that child health is itself an investment in a child's entire future. This study will provide a fuller understanding of the roles the family plays in the determination of children's early health outcomes and how these early outcomes influence later outcomes such as cognitive development, education, adult health and adult socio-economic success. Two unique features of this study are that it focuses on the development of the child throughout the live cycle from birth outcomes to success in adult life and that it controls for earlier investments in human capital when examining later outcomes. The study uses two data sets, the National Survey of Longitudinal Youth (NLSY) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), to capture the full range of lifetime outcomes for extended families. The study also provides a new econometric approach to modeling these interrelated behaviors for multiple family members, which reveals the nature of the family links as well as the behavioral relationships of primary interest-the determinants of child quality. Specifically, the study will consider a wide range of child outcomes including: (1) infant health-birth weight and prematurity; (2) childhood outcomes-child mortality, weight for height, and cognitive measures; and (3) adult outcomes-education, health, occupational status, and earnings. These outcomes represent the development of the child's "quality" over the life cycle and are the result of parental decisions concerning resource allocation and investments in children, the stock of family resources, and genetic endowments.