We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a large-scale and universal early childhood …' can deliver significant health benefits, even in contexts with universal healthcare. Impacts are driven by … environments might be a successful strategy to reduce inequalities in health. …

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. …

This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during … early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and … find that children's capabilities strongly interact and build on each other: health is an important determinant of early …

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 …

great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading …

interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from Denmark together with variation in the …

We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and … new policy parameter, QCD, which denotes quantiles of the effect distribution conditional on latent neonatal health. The … dependence between potential outcomes originates from a new class of factor models where latent health can affect the location …

We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and … new policy parameter, QCD, which denotes quantiles of the effect distribution conditional on latent neonatal health. The … dependence between potential outcomes originates from a new class of factor models where latent health can affect the location …

interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from Denmark together with variation in the …

and material investments. Results do not support income, health and temporary disruption in cognitive performance as …