Do Maternal Health Problems Influence Child's Worrying Status? Evidence from British Cohort Study

SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2014-021

27 Pages Posted: 5 Jan 2017

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Xianhua Dai

Wuhan University of Technology

Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Blockchain Research Center Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Charles University; National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Asian Competitiveness Institute

Keming Yu

Brunel University London - CARISMA: The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications

Date Written: January 2, 2017

Abstract

The influence of maternal health problems on child's worrying status is important in practice in terms of the intervention of maternal health problems early for the influence on child's worrying status. Conventional methods apply symmetric prior distributions such as a normal distribution or a Laplace distribituion for regression coefficients, which may be suitable for median regression and exhibit no robustness to outliers. This paper develops a quantile regression on linear panel data model without heterogeneity from a Bayesian point of view, and examines the influence of maternal health problems on child's worrying status. Upon a location-scale mixture representation of the asymmetric Laplace error distribution, this paper provides how the posterior distribution can be sampled and summarized by Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Applying for the 1970 British Cohort Study data, we find and that a different maternal health problem has different influence on child's worrying status at different quantiles. In addition, applying stochastic search variable selection for maternal health problems in the 1970 British Cohort Study data, we find that maternal nervous breakdown, in our work, among the 25 maternal health problems, contributes most to influence the child's worrying status.

Keywords: British Cohort Study data, Bayesian inference, Quantile regression, Asymmetric Laplace error distribution, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Variable selection

JEL Classification: C11, C38, C63

Suggested Citation

Dai, Xianhua and Härdle, Wolfgang Karl and Yu, Keming, Do Maternal Health Problems Influence Child's Worrying Status? Evidence from British Cohort Study (January 2, 2017). SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2014-021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2892623 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2892623

Xianhua Dai

Wuhan University of Technology ( email )

122 Luoshi Road
Wuhan, Hubei 430070
China

Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Contact Author)

Blockchain Research Center Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ( email )

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Berlin, D-10099
Germany

Charles University ( email )

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Dept Math Physics
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Czech Republic

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University ( email )

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Hsinchu City 300093
Taiwan

Asian Competitiveness Institute ( email )

Singapore

Keming Yu

Brunel University London - CARISMA: The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications

John Crank Building
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom

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