National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Reports Findings in Healthcare Economics (The role of health at birth and parental investment in early child development: evidence from the French ELFE cohort)

2021 JUL 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Economics Daily Report -- New research on Economics - Healthcare Economics is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Montpellier, France, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This paper combines a theoretical and an empirical approach to address how health at birth affects child development. Using a simple theoretical model in which parents invest in their children, we identify the mechanisms through which better health at birth can improve child development.”

Financial support for this research came from Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), “We also emphasise how parental socioeconomic status can shape the effects of health at birth. We perform an empirical analysis on a French cohort of children born in 2011, using a unique dataset ELFE. We identify the effect of birth weight and gestational age on child development at 1 year. The results indicate that only gestational age positively affects early development.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We find no empirical evidence for the existence of a severity effect, according to which the adverse effects of poor health at birth are higher for children in low-income families or with poorly educated mothers.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The role of health at birth and parental investment in early child development: evidence from the French ELFE cohort. The European Journal of Health Economics, 2021. The European Journal of Health Economics can be contacted at: Springer, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Marion Davin, CEE-M, Univ. Montpellier, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), INRAE, SupAgro, Montpellier, France.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-021-01332-x. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the The European Journal of Health Economics is: Springer, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States.

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