. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 12.

Published in final edited form as: B E J Econom Anal Policy. 2011 Sep 6;11(3):2521. doi: 10.2202/1935-1682.2521

Table 7.

Childhood Family Income, Health Insurance, Birth Weight, and Adult Health

(Interval regression. Dependent variable: general health status in adulthood: 100pt-scale, 100=perfect health)

	(1)	(2)	(3)
Parental income-to-needs ratio at ages 13–16:
<1 (in poverty)	−2.1252^** (0.9838)	−2.1252^** (0.9826)	−2.1100^** (0.9798)
1 to 2 (reference group in columns 1 and 2)
>2 to 3	−0.4154 (0.8775)	−0.3424 (0.8589)
>3	−0.4401 (1.0659)	−0.3549 (1.0488)
Low birth weight		−3.6605^*** (1.3480)
Low birth weight^* had health insurance (in all yrs 1968 to 1972)			−1.9148 (1.8702)
Low birth weight^* no health insurance (at some point 1968 to 1972)			−5.1029^*** (1.8726)
Age - 25	−0.3171^*** (0.0272)	−0.3166^*** (0.0271)	−0.3167^*** (0.0271)

Brother fixed effects?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Number of families	723	723	723
Number of individuals	1,888	1,888	1,888
Person-year observations	18,252	18,252	18,252

Standard errors (clustered on individual) in parentheses.

significant at 10%;

^**

significant at 5%;

^***

significant at 1%.

All models also include controls for birth order, mother’s age at birth, whether born into a two-parent family, birth year cohort dummy indicators (5-yr intervals), and the set of parental fertility timing preference variables.