%0 Report
        %A Abrahamsen, Signe A.
%A Ginja, Rita
%A Riise, Julie
        %T School Health Programs: Education, Health, and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14546
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14546
        %X 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.
        %K school health services
%K teenage pregnancy
%K welfare dependency
%K utilization of health services
%K health status