Konferenzbeitrag
Early Life Health Interventions and Childhood Development: Evidence from Special Care Nursery Assignment in Australia’s Northern Territory
This paper studies the effect of improved early-life health care, through assignment to a special care nursery (SCN), on childhood development and school achievement. We use linked administrative data in the Northern Territory of Australia and exploit the fact that assignment to SCN is largely based on rules of thumb involving low birth weight thresholds. We find large positive effects of SCN assignment on development at age five and some persistent improvements in test scores. Our results suggest that costly early-life health interventions, that are shown to increase survival probabilities of children in the short run, can also substantially boost cognitive and non-cognitive skills.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2017: Alternative Geld- und Finanzarchitekturen - Session: Applied Microeconomics II ; No. E03-V2
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Education and Inequality
- Subject
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Early-life health treatments
special care nurseries
school achievements
noncognitive skills
school readiness
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Schnepel, Kevin T.
Schurer, Stefanie
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
- (where)
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Kiel, Hamburg
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Konferenzbeitrag
Associated
- Schnepel, Kevin T.
- Schurer, Stefanie
- ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Time of origin
- 2017
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