Maternal human capital and infants’ health outcomes: Evidence from minimum dropout age policies in the US
The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to examine the causal relationship of maternal education and infants' health outcomes. Using birth certificate data over the years 1970–2004 and exploiting the space-time variation in Minimum Dropout Age laws to solve the endogeneity of education, we...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-09-01
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| Series: | SSM: Population Health |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827322001422 |