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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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Chapter 19 Child health in developed countries
Currie, Janet - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1053-1090). 2000
most children. Hence, the last section of this chapter offers a brief review of what we know about the effects of …
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Are bad health and pain making us grumpy? : an empirical evaluation of reporting heterogeneity in rating health system responsiveness
Fiorentini, Gianluca; Ragazzi, Giovanni; Robone, Silvana - 2014
This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing aspects of care (Valentine et al. 2003a). Since...
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Mergers and birth outcomes : evidence from maternity ward closures
Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2018
Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903951
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Saving lives at birth : the impact of home births on infant outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2012
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629032
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Effects of Subsidized Health Insurance on Newborn Health in Colombia
Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily - 2011
We examine whether the Colombian government, when instituting and expanding social programs in the early nineties, inadvertently created incentives for people to become informal. We use data from repeated cross-sections of the Colombian Household Survey for periods before and after...
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The Timing of Early Interventions and Child and Maternal Health
Hirani, Jonas Lau-Jensen - 2020
variation in children's age at strike start, we show that early, but not later, strike exposure increases child and mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838935
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Mergers and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures
Avdic, Daniel - 2018
Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911187
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Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions
Breining, Sanni - 2015
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement.Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2020
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which … of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further …
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