Arbeitspapier

Early life health interventions and academic achievement

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns infants special care at a specific birth weight cutoff. Using detailed administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0.15-0.22 standard deviations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6864

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
child development
neonatal care
regression discontinuity
Kinder
Gesundheitsversorgung
Lebensverlauf
Bildungsniveau
Sterblichkeit
Norwegen
China

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bharadwaj, Prashant
Løken, Katrine Vellesen
Neilson, Christopher
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2012

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bharadwaj, Prashant
  • Løken, Katrine Vellesen
  • Neilson, Christopher
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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