Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab
Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab
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DOI：
10.1257/app.4.1.245
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Barham, Tania
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作者：
Barham, Tania
人们认为，早期的生活环境对以后的成功至关重要。然而，证明幼儿健康干预措施的影响持续到儿童晚期和青春期的因果证据很少。本文利用Matlab在孟加拉国的母婴健康和计划生育项目的准随机放置，以确定在儿童早期有资格接受儿童健康干预的儿童在8-14岁时是否具有更好的认知功能。我发现对认知功能的程序效应为0.39标准差，对身高和受教育程度的影响也类似
It is believed that early life circumstances are crucial to success later in life. Yet causal evidence that the impacts of early childhood health interventions continue into late childhood and adolescence is sparse. This paper exploits a quasi-random placement of the Matlab Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Program in Bangladesh to determine whether children eligible for child health interventions in early childhood had better cognitive functioning at ages 8-14. I find a program effect of 0.39 standard deviations on cognitive functioning and similar effects for height and educational attainment