Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barham, Tania
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.4.1.245
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 245-273
• 关键词: mini-mental-state; mch-fp program; developing-countries; measles vaccination; childhood mortality; bangladesh; IMPACT; services

摘要

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