TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bharadwaj, Prashant
AU  - Loken, Katrine Vellesen
AU  - Neilson, Christopher A.
        TI  - Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
        PY  - 2012/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6864
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6864
        AB  - This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal 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.
        KW  - neonatal care
KW  - regression discontinuity
KW  - child development
        ER  -