TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Abrahamsen, Signe A.
AU  - Ginja, Rita
AU  - Riise, Julie
        TI  - School Health Programs: Education, Health, and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults
        PY  - 2021/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14546
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14546
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - school health services
KW  - teenage pregnancy
KW  - welfare dependency
KW  - utilization of health services
KW  - health status
        ER  -