El Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a un nuevo Seminario Académico:

Título - Health at Birth, Parental Investments and Academic Outcomes

Presenta - Juan Eberhard (University of Southern California and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

Autores - Prashant Bharadwaj (University of California),  Juan Eberhard (University of Southern California and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez), Christopher Neilson (NYU Stern and Princeton University)

Abstract - This paper explores the relationship between health at birth and academic outcomes using administrative panel data from Chile. Twins fixed effects models estimate a persistent effect of birth weight on academic achievement while OLS and siblings fixed effects models find this relationship to decline over time. We make sense of these findings in the context of a model of human capital accumulation where parental investments respond to initial endowments. Using detailed data on parental investments, we find that investments are compensatory with regard to initial health, but that within twins, parents do not invest differentially. These findings suggest that initial health shocks significantly affect academic outcomes and that parental investments are a potential channel via which the negative impacts of health shocks can be mitigated over the long run.

El  Seminario  se realizará el miércoles 26 de noviembre de 13:00 a 14.00 hrs, en  la Sala P-307 Tercer Piso del edificio Placa de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, ubicada en Diagonal Paraguay 257.