It's a Long Walk: Lasting Effects of Maternity Ward Openings on Labor Market Performance
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Lazuka, Volha
署名单位：
University of Southern Denmark; Lund University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
刊物名称：
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0034-6535
DOI：
10.1162/rest_a_01134
发表日期：
2023-11
页码：
1411-1425
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摘要：
Being born in a hospital versus having a traditional birth attendant at home represents the most common early life policy change worldwide. By applying a difference-in-differences approach to register-based individual-level data on the total population, this paper explores the long-term economic effects of the opening of new maternity wards as an early life quasi-experiment. It first finds that the reform substantially increased the share of hospital births and reduced early neonatal mortality. It then shows sizable long-term effects on labor income, unemployment, health-related disability, and schooling. Small-scale local maternity wards yield a larger social rate of return than large-scale hospitals.
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