TY  - JOUR
AU  - Currie,Janet
AU  - Stabile,Mark
AU  - Manivong,Phongsack
AU  - Roos,Leslie L.
TI  - Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14482
PY  - 2008
Y2  - November 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14482
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14482.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Janet Currie
Princeton University
316 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7393
Fax: 609-258-5974
E-Mail: jcurrie@princeton.edu

Mark Stabile
School of Public Policy and Governance
University of Toronto
Canadiana Building, 3rd Floor
14 Queen's Park Cres. W.
Toronto, ON M5S 3K9
CANADA
Tel: 416/978-4329
Fax: 416/978-5079
E-Mail: mark.stabile@utoronto.ca

Phongsack Manivong
Univeristy of Manitoba
E-Mail: Phongsack_Manivong@cpe.umanitoba.ca

Leslie L.. Roos
University of Manitoba
E-Mail: Leslie_Roos@cpe.umanitoba.ca
AB  - Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes.  But this research has not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than at others?  We address these questions using a unique data set based on public health insurance records for 50,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba.  These children are followed until 2006, and their records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data.  We compare children with health conditions to their own siblings born an average of 3 years apart, and control for health at birth.  We find that health problems, and especially mental health problems in early childhood are significant determinants of outcomes linked to adult socioeconomic status.
ER  -