Replication data for: Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Prashant Bharadwaj; Katrine Vellesen Løken; Christopher Neilson

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Project Citation:

Bharadwaj, Prashant, Løken, Katrine Vellesen, and Neilson, Christopher. Replication data for: Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112660V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
      I12 Health Behavior
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      I21 Analysis of Education
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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