Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

被引：132

作者：

Bharadwaj, Prashant ^{[1
]}

Loken, Katrine Vellesen ^{[2
]}

Neilson, Christopher ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92629 USA

[2] Univ Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway

[3] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06211 USA

来源：

AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2013年 / 103卷 / 05期

关键词：

BIRTH-WEIGHT; CHILDREN BORN; SURFACTANT; MORTALITY; INFANTS; PREMATURITY; NUTRITION; EDUCATION; THERAPY; PRETERM;

D O I：

10.1257/aer.103.5.1862

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper studies the effect of improved early life 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. (JEL I11, I12, I18, I21, J13, O15)

引用

页码：1862 / 1891

页数：30

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