We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a large-scale and universal early childhood …-sector hospitals. Exposure to an additional Sure Start center per thousand age-eligible children increases hospitalization by 10% at …' can deliver significant health benefits, even in contexts with universal healthcare. Impacts are driven by …

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 … universal healthcare? We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … approach. Our results suggest that the income effects observed in the data are spurious. -- child health ; intergenerational …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are …

Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children?s health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …

health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …

"There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and … socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and … between child health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether …