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The health effects of universal early childhood interventions : evidence from Sure Start

Cattan, Sarah; Conti, Gabriella; Farquharson, Christine; … - 2021

This paper evaluates the short- and medium-term health impacts of offering families with children under 5 universal access to centres providing childcare, health services, parenting support and parental job assistance. Increased access to these centres during early childhood increases the...

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The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK

Conti, Gabriella; Pizzo, Elena; Morris, Stephen; … - 2021

Child maltreatment is a major public health problem with significant consequences for individual victims and for … society. In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK … market outcomes and welfare use. We combine novel regression analysis of rich data from the National Child Development Study …

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Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health : evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter

Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2021

This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection eﬀects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945),...

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Parental beliefs, perceived health risks, and time investment in children : evidence from COVID-19

Conti, Gabriella; Giannola, Michele; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2022

When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the perceived benefits and costs of different activities. During the COVID-19 outbreak parents had to consider a new cost dimension when making this decision: the perceived health...

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The health effects of universal early childhood interventions : evidence from Sure Start

Cattan, Sarah; Conti, Gabriella; Farquharson, Christine; … - 2022

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) offering disadvantaged children preschool and family support services in the US show long-lasting health impacts. Can these benefits hold when these programs are offered to all children in contexts with universal healthcare? We evaluate the short- and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468646

Parental beliefs, perceived health risks, and time investment in children : evidence from COVID-19

Conti, Gabriella; Giannola, Michele; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226969