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The health effects of universal early childhood interventions: evidence from Sure Start
Cattan, Sarah; Conti, Gabriella; Farquharson, Christine; … - 2021
-sector hospitals. Exposure to an additional Sure Start center per thousand age-eligible children increases hospitalization by 10% at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703055
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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 … these centres during early childhood increases the probability of hospitalisation for infants in the local area. As children … practices and home environments, and improved emotional and behavioural development among children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612833
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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 …-eligible children increases hospitalizations by 10% at age 1, but reduces them by 8-9% across ages 11-15. Impacts are concentrated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468646
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The developmental approach to child and adult health
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680986
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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health
Conti, Gabriella - 2012
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096441
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The developmental approach to child and adult health
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291401
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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), pushing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651361
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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),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665047
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Severe Prenatal Shocks and Adolescent Health : Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2022
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), pushing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084053
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The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviors
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2015
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308448