@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14546,
            	author={Abrahamsen, Signe A. and Ginja, Rita and Riise, Julie},
            	title={School Health Programs: Education, Health, and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults},
            	year={2021},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14546},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14546},
	abstract={This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation from a 1999-reform in Norway that induced substantial differences in the availability 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 the pre- to the post-reform period, attributed to the policy change. The reform reduced teenage pregnancies and increased college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take-up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform also improved the health of newborns of affected new mothers and reduced the likelihood of miscarriages.},
	keywords={school health services;teenage pregnancy;welfare dependency;utilization of health services;health status},
            }