Replication files for Mothers' School Starting Age and Infant Health
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Cristina Borra, Universidad de Sevilla; Libertad González, Universidad Pompeu Fabra; David Patiño Rodriguez, Universidad de Sevilla
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Project Citation:
Borra, Cristina, González, Libertad, and Patiño Rodriguez, David. Replication files for Mothers’ School Starting Age and Infant Health. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E196241V3
Project Description
Summary:
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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.
Funding Sources:
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Gobierno de España (RTI2018-098217-B-I00);
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2022-141375OB-I00);
European Research Council (CoG MISSINGMIDDLE-770958);
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CEX2019- 000915-S)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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school starting age;
infant health;
maternal age;
school cohort;
intergenerational effects
Geographic Coverage:
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Spain
Time Period(s):
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1996 – 2018
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