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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515874
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483902
and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from … was systematically larger among children born out of wedlock, who also exhibit higher baseline rates of infant mortality … Gesundheitsprogramms für Kinder auf deren Sterblichkeit und Überlebenswahrscheinlichkeit bis zu den Lebensaltern 5, 40 und 75. Diese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406825
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510011
purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata … in primary school, and increased enrolment in university and apprenticeship in late adolescence. These changes are larger … and more robust for men, but we find increases in secondary school completion which are unique to women. In the longer run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979455
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023780
purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata … in primary school, and increased enrolment in university and apprenticeship in late adolescence. These changes are larger … and more robust for men, but we find increases in secondary school completion which are unique to women. In the longer run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580817
associated with higher test scores in primary school for boys and girls, with a different distribution of gains, only girls being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010842
purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata … in primary school, and increased enrolment in university and apprenticeship in late adolescence. These changes are larger … and more robust for men, but we find increases in secondary school completion which are unique to women. In the longer run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011708489
reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 … in more than 2,500 school districts, the extensions generated large exogenous variation in educational attainment at … different points in primary school while the overall school system and curricula remained unchanged. The reforms thus constitute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653158