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 medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England … disadvantaged areas and likely driven by both health and non-health services. …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …

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 … health. The impacts during post-childcare age sug-gest that operating mechanisms are stronger immune systems, safer parenting …

developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I …

private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … with a substantial proportion of households opting for private schools. On the other hand, opting out from public health is …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years … using a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model (DCGEM), which is an economy-wide model that describes the behavior of …