tailieunhanh - The Impact of Low Income on Child Health: Evidence from a Birth Cohort Study

The dataset used for this paper comes from the baseline data of the evaluation of Familias en Acción, a program implemented by the Colombian government to foster human capital accumulation among poor children living in small municipalities. The program, modeled after the Mexican PROGRESA, provides monetary transfers to mothers in beneficiary families, conditional on having completed some requirements: (a) children under seven should be taken to growth and development check-ups, (b) children between 7 and 17 years old should regularly attend school. In order to understand the characteristics of our sample, it is important to roughly understand the requirements to. | The Impact of Low Income on Child Health Evidence from a Birth Cohort Study Simon Burgess Carol Propper John Rigg and the ALSPAC Study Team Contents 1. 2. The relationship between child health and parental 3. The Data. .6 4. The effect of 5. The effect of maternal behaviours and CASEpaper 85 May 2004 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion London School of Economics Houghton Street London Wc2A 2AE CASE enquiries - tel 020 7955 6679 i Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion The ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion CASE was established in October 1997 with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. It is located within the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines STICERD at the London School of Economics and Political Science and benefits from support from STICERD. It is directed by Howard Glennerster John Hills Kathleen Kiernan Julian Le Grand Anne Power and Carol Propper. Our Discussion Paper series is available free of charge. We also produce summaries of our research in CASEbriefs and reports from various conferences and activities in CASEreports. To subscribe to the CASEpaper series or for further information on the work of the Centre and our seminar series please contact the Centre Administrator Jane Dickson on Telephone UK 20 7955 6679 Fax UK 20 7955 6951 Email Web site http case Simon Burgess Carol Propper John Rigg All rights reserved. Short sections of text not to exceed two paragraphs may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit including notice is given to the source. ii Editorial Note Simon Burgess and Carol Propper are both Professors of Economics in the Department of Economics and the Leverhulme Centre for Market and Public Organisation CMPO University of Bristol. Simon Burgess is a Research Associate and Carol Propper is a co-director at the .