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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19839
来源ID	Working Paper 19839
	Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement
	Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder; George L. Wehby; Sarah Lewis; Luisa Zuccolo
发表日期	2014-01-23
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	We examine the effect of alcohol exposure in utero on child academic achievement. As well as studying the effect of any alcohol exposure, we investigate the effect of the dose, pattern, and duration of exposure. We use a genetic variant in the maternal alcohol-metabolism gene ADH1B as an instrument for alcohol exposure, whilst controlling for the child's genotype on the same variant. We show that the instrument is unrelated to an extensive range of maternal and paternal characteristics and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely to drink. In stark contrast to the OLS, the IV estimates show negative effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on child educational attainment. These results are very robust to an extensive set of model specifications. In addition, we show that that the effects are solely driven by the maternal genotype, with no impact of the child's genotype.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19839
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577513
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder,George L. Wehby,Sarah Lewis,et al. Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement. 2014.