Infant Health Care and Long-Term Outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Butikofer, Aline; Loken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G.
• 署名单位: Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Bergen
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00790
• 发表日期: 2019-05
• 页码: 341-354
• 关键词: cognitive-development; BEHAVIOR; interventions; mortality; education; height

摘要

This paper studies the long-term and life cycle consequences of increasing access to mother and child health care centers in the first year of life. Access to these centers increased completed years of schooling by 0.15 years and earnings by 2%. These effects were stronger for children from a low socioeconomic background and contribute to a 10% reduction in the intergenerational persistence in educational attainment. Better nutrition within the first year of life is a likely mechanism. In particular, we find positive effects on adult height, fewer health risks at age 40, and decreased infant mortality from diarrhea.