Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
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DOI：
10.1257/aer.103.5.1862
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
影响因子：
10.7
通讯作者：
Neilson, Christopher
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作者：
Bharadwaj, Prashant;Loken, Katrine Vellesen;Neilson, Christopher
本文研究改善早期生命保健对死亡率和学校长期学业成绩的影响。我们使用的想法是，医学治疗通常遵循经验法则来分配对患者的护理，例如极低出生体重（VLBW）的分类，它在特定的出生体重截止点为婴儿分配特殊护理。我们利用智利和挪威关于学校教育和出生记录的详细行政数据确定，在出生时得到额外医疗照顾的儿童死亡率较低，在学校的考试成绩和成绩较高。这些增益约为0.15-0.22个标准差。（jel 11, i12, i18, i21, j13, o15）
This paper studies the effect of improved early life health care on mortality and long-run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns infants special care at a specific birth weight cutoff. Using detailed administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0.15-0.22 standard deviations. (JEL I11, I12, I18, I21, J13, O15)