SEASON OF BIRTH AND LATER OUTCOMES: OLD QUESTIONS, NEW ANSWERS

被引：304

作者：

Buckles, Kasey S. ^{[1
]}

Hungerman, Daniel M. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA

[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS | 2013年 / 95卷 / 03期

关键词：

INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES REGRESSION; UNITED-STATES; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; WEAK INSTRUMENTS; SCHOOL-ENTRY; LABOR-MARKET; SOCIAL-CLASS; RETURNS; HEALTH; WEIGHT;

D O I：

10.1162/REST_a_00314

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Season of birth is associated with later outcomes; what drives this association remains unclear. We consider a new explanation: variation in maternal characteristics. We document large changes in maternal characteristics for births throughout the year; winter births are dispropor-tionally realized by teenagers and the unmarried. Family background controls explain nearly half of season-of-birth's relation to adult outcomes. Seasonality in maternal characteristics is driven by women trying to conceive; we find no seasonality among unwanted births. Prior seasonality-in-fertility research focuses on conditions at conception; here, expected conditions at birth drive variation in maternal characteristics, while conditions at conception are unimportant.

引用

页码：711 / 724

页数：14

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