Introduction to Econometrics I Project Instructions
Research question:
According to Litzky, J., Boulet, S., Esfandiari, N., Zhang, Y., Kissin, D., Theiler, R., & Marsit, C. (2018), the low birth weight of infant can increase the risk of child mortality and some severe deceases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes. This project will test whether the mother’s education level, smoking, unmarried and mother’s age have an impression on the new birth weight.
Birthweight as my dependent variable and education, smoking, unmarried and age are my independent variables.
These data were provided by Professor Douglas Almond, Kenneth Chay, and David Lee and are a subset of the data used in their paper “The Costs of Low Birth Weight,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2005, 120(3): 1031-1083. The file contains 3,000 observations
1. Research has shown that the amount and intensity of smoking during pregnancy is related to the birth weight of a full-term baby, according to an article Smoking During Pregnancy and Harm Reduction in Birth Weight: A Cross-Sectional Study.
2. Less education people have less knowledge about health leads to the undernutrition and underdevelopment of their infants compared to the children of highly education mothers, according to an article Does Your Education Level Affect Your Health?
Reference:
Litzky, J., Boulet, S., Esfandiari, N., Zhang, Y., Kissin, D., Theiler, R., & Marist, C. (2018). Effect of frozen/thawed embryo transfer on birthweight, macrosomia, and low birthweight rates in US singleton infants. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 218(4), 433.e1-433.e10.
