Low Birth Weight and Parental Investment
Do Parents Favor the Fittest Child
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2286505 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamie L Lynch (0000-0001-5119-2709, St. Norbert College, corresponding author), Ryan Brooks (The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 533-543 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jomf.12028 |
| OpenAlex | W2330537388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 35 |
Do parents contribute to birth weight disparities in status attainment? This study uses a nationally representative sample of 8,550 children and 1,450 twins from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort to investigate whether, as recent studies have suggested, parents favor healthier children. Children with poor health are found to receive fewer parental investments, including breast-feeding and quality parent-child interaction, but results from between- and within-family regression models, using low birth weight as a proxy for child health, find no evidence that parents compensate for or reinforce child health endowments. Instead, birth-weight disparities in parental investment are linked with observable family, maternal, and child sociodemographic characteristics. Our results raise doubts about the utility of human capital models to explain health disparities in parental investment and shed new light on the broad spectrum of disadvantage faced by children with poor health
Birth weight · Cohort · Developmental psychology · Disadvantage · Early childhood · Economics · Educational attainment · Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study · Human capital · Offspring · Parental investment · Pregnancy · Proxy (statistics · Sociology · Birth, Development, and Health · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology
A Pound of Flesh
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How Child and Partnership Characteristics Influence Paternal Involvement
Sibling Achievement, Sibling Gender, and Beliefs about Parental Investment
Health Status of Grandchildren and Grandparental Involvement
Child and contextual effects in the emergence of differential maternal sensitivity across siblings
Selective Reciprocity
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Parental investment responses to a low birth weight outcome
Reinforcement or compensation? Parental responses to children’s revealed human capital levels
Disentangling genetic and social pathways of the intergenerational transmission of cognitive ability – A nuclear twin family study
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Parental preferences and allocations of investments in children's learning and health within families
Do Well-off Families Compensate for Low Cognitive Ability? Evidence on Social Inequality in Early Schooling from a Twin Study
Compensation or accentuation? How parents from different social backgrounds decide to support their children
When children affect parents
Economic Status and Health in Childhood
Breast-feeding and cognitive development
Multiple Imputation of Missing Values
Returns to Birthweight
Racial and ethnic variation in low birthweight in the United States
Reproducing inequalities
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Endowments and parental investments in infancy and early childhood
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Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children
Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny
Regression with Missing Ys
Maternal employment and time with children
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Invisible Inequality
From Parent to Child
Cultural and Economic Approaches to Fertility
Parental Status and Differential Investment in Sons and Daughters
Understanding Academic Achievement among Children in Stephouseholds
The Effect of Physical Attractiveness on Teacher Expectations
Health Selection and the Process of Social Stratification
One's Enough for Now
Infant Health, Race/Ethnicity, and Early Educational Outcomes Using the ECLS-B
Sponsoring the Next Generation
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |