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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
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We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a large-scale and universal early childhood …-sector hospitals. Exposure to an additional Sure Start center per thousand age-eligible children increases hospitalization by 10% at …' can deliver significant health benefits, even in contexts with universal healthcare. Impacts are driven by …
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services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …
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premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to …
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consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …
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Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We … study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …-sections. In contrast to concerns voiced in the public discourse, the effects on a range of maternal and infant health outcomes are …
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recovery in reporting of violence against children, pointing to important non-cognitive costs of both school closure, and …Schools are a key channel in formal reporting of violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset … once re-openings begin. Examining the universe of all criminal reports of violence against children in Chile, we observe …
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We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
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Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …
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This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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