show long-lasting health impacts. Can these benefits hold when these programs are offered to all children in contexts with …Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) offering disadvantaged children preschool and family support services in the US … universal healthcare? We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England …

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer … school nurse per 1,000 school-age children before the reform there was an increase in the availability of nurses of 35% from …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …

brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the cohorts born in …

This paper evaluates the short- and medium-term health impacts of offering families with children under 5 universal … access to centres providing childcare, health services, parenting support and parental job assistance. Increased access to … these centres during early childhood increases the probability of hospitalisation for infants in the local area. As children …

children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a …

, such as women’s reproductive health, labor supply, and the welfare of their children. The study uses a sample of nearly 83 … negative externality by affecting important short-term health outcomes for children whose mothers suffered from violence. To … against women on their children’s health outcomes. …