LATER RETURN TO EARLY CHILD HEALTH

对儿童进行早期投资的前提是产前 整个幼儿时期都缺乏独特的生产机会 健康的儿童，儿童健康本身就是对儿童健康的投资 孩子的整个未来。这项研究将提供更全面的了解 家庭在决定儿童早期健康方面发挥的作用 结果以及这些早期结果如何影响以后的结果，例如 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是它侧重于发展 孩子从出生到成功的整个生命周期 成人生活及其对早期人力资本投资的控制 当检查以后的结果时。该研究使用两个数据集，即国家 青年纵向调查（NLSY）和收入动态小组研究 （PSID），以捕获延长生命周期的全部结果 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揭示了 家庭联系的性质以及行为关系 首要兴趣——孩子素质的决定因素。 具体来说，该研究将考虑广泛的儿童结局 包括：（1）婴儿健康状况——出生体重和早产； (2)童年 结果——儿童死亡率、身高体重和认知测量；和 (3) 成人结果——教育、健康、职业地位和收入。 这些结果代表了孩子“素质”的发展 生命周期，是父母有关资源的决定的结果 对儿童的分配和投资、家庭资源存量，以及 遗传禀赋。

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.