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

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 probability of hospitalisation for infants in the local area. As children …

school nurse per 1,000 school-age children before the reform there was an increase in the availability of nurses of 35% from …This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer …

on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems …

breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children …

delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and …

We provide a framework to disentangle the role of preferences and beliefs in health behavior, and we apply it to … mental health. But we also document substantial heterogeneity in preferences and/or expectations by vulnerability status … political party plan to comply less. These findings emphasize the need for public health policies to account for heterogenous …

Internet access in secondary public schools in Peru. Rich longitudinal school-level data from 2001 to 2006 are used to …