THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF PREVENTATIVE PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMMES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaa071
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 797-826
• 关键词: infant health; socioeconomic-status; run impacts; new-deal; childhood; mortality; water; eradication; INVESTMENT; education

摘要

This paper estimates the long-term impact of childhood exposure to a preventative public health programme on adult human capital. From 1908 to 1933, local governments in the United States instituted county-level health departments (CHDs) that provided preventative health services geared towards children. This paper estimates the long-term benefits of childhood exposure to this public programme using variation in CHID location, timing and age of exposure. CHD operation before the age of 5 increases men's later-life earnings by 2% to 5%. Exposed boys not only perform better than later- and never-treated groups, but, after adding household fixed effects, exposed men earn more than their brothers.