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Does childcare improve the health of children with unemployed parents? Evidence from Swedish childcare access reform
Aalto, Aino-Maija; Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; … - 2019
We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. While we find no effects of childcare access on hospitalization for 2 … they first gained access to childcare. Children aged 10 to 11 years who had access to childcare earlier in their childhood …
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Human capital effects of one-on-one time with parents: Evidence from a Swedish childcare access reform
Sjögren, Anna; Ahlzén, Malin Tallås - 2022
formation of children. To this end, we exploit a nationwide reform that mandated Swedish municipalities to offer childcare … access for infants' older siblings, while parents were on parental leave to care for their infants. Survey data on childcare … enrollment show that the reform had a significant impact on the childcare enrollment of older siblings. Using rich administrative …
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Born to win? The role of circumstances and luck in early childhood health inequalities
Madden, David - 2013
This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers' education and mothers' smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but...
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Early intervention and child health: Evidence from a Dublin-based randomized controlled trial
Doyle, Orla; Fitzpatrick, Nick; Lovett, Judy; Rawdon, … - 2015
This article investigates the impact of an early intervention program, which experimentally modifies the parenting and home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 (115 intervention, 118 control) pregnant women from a...
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Should early health investments work? Evidence from an RCT of a home visiting programme
Coy, Deirdre; Doyle, Orla - 2020
Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous methods, careful hypothesis setting, and socioeconomic contextualisation, we examine the impact of an Irish home visiting programme on child health. The treatment provides...
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Electricity Outages and Health Outcomes of Children: Empirical Evidence from Transition Economy
Sargsyan, Yermone - 2021
The electricity prices in developing countries are relatively low to recover its costs of generation and provision. This results in under-investment in infrastructure, which usually leads to frequent outages or rolling blackouts by the electricity suppliers. Outages may have an adverse impact on...
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Domestic Abuse and Child Health
Rawlings, Samantha; Siddique, Zahra - 2014
We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born to victims. We use data on approximately 0.6 million children born between 1975 and 2013 across...
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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors such as the number of...
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Communication Problems? The Role of Parent-child Communication for the Subsequent Health Behavior of Adolescents
Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015
We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may function as a mediator between family background and...
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Kindergesundheit im ersten Corona-Lockdown: Weniger Behandlungsfälle und weniger Diagnosen von Infektionen
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 88 (2021) 16, pp. 276-284
Während des ersten Corona-Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020 sind die Behandlungsfälle von Kindern in ambulanten Arztpraxen um bis zu 20 Prozent zurückgegangen. Wie diese Studie auf Basis administrativer Diagnosedaten aller gesetzlichen Krankenkassen in Deutschland zeigt, wurden im zweiten Quartal...
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