TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Conti, Gabriella
AU  - Hanson, Mark
AU  - Inskip, Hazel
AU  - Crozier, Sarah
AU  - Cooper, Cyrus
AU  - Godfrey, Keith
        TI  - Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital
        PY  - 2020/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13296
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13296
        AB  - Birth weight is the most widely used indicator of neonatal health, mainly because it is routinely recorded in birth registries. But are better measures available? We use unique data including fetal ultrasounds to show that more specific measures of the fetus and of the newborn are more informative about the prenatal environment and more predictive of child health and development, beyond birth weight. Our results are robust to correcting for measurement error and accounting for child- and mother-specific unobserved heterogeneity. Our analysis rationalizes a common finding in the early origins literature, that prenatal events can influence postnatal development without aecting birth outcomes.
        KW  - birth weight
KW  - fetal development
KW  - child health
KW  - developmental origins
KW  - measurement
        ER  -