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Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: Heterogeneous effects

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  • Anna Baranowska-Rataj
  • Kieron Barclay
  • Joan Costa-Font
  • Mikko Myrskylä
  • Berkay Özcan

Abstract

Although preterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality in advanced economies, evidence about the consequences of prematurity in later life is limited. Using Swedish registers for cohorts born 1982–94 (N = 1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm birth on school grades at age 16 using sibling fixed effects models. We further examine how school grades are affected by degree of prematurity and the compensating roles of family socio-economic resources and characteristics of school districts. Our results show that the negative effects of preterm birth are observed mostly among children born extremely preterm (

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  • Anna Baranowska-Rataj & Kieron Barclay & Joan Costa-Font & Mikko Myrskylä & Berkay Özcan, 2023. "Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: Heterogeneous effects," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 77(3), pages 459-474, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:77:y:2023:i:3:p:459-474
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2022.2080247
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    1. Melissa Thalhammer & Jakob Seidlitz & Antonia Neubauer & Aurore Menegaux & Benita Schmitz-Koep & Maria A. Di Biase & Julia Schulz & Lena Dorfschmidt & Richard A. I. Bethlehem & Aaron Alexander-Bloch &, 2025. "Heterogeneous, temporally consistent, and plastic brain development after preterm birth," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-21, December.
    2. Kieron J. Barclay & Ken R. Smith, 2020. "The effects of birth spacing on health and socioeconomic outcomes across the life course: evidence from the Utah Population Database," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2020-038, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

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    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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