The Library
Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden
Tools
Tools
Tools
Bhalotra, Sonia, Karlsson, Martin, Nilsson, Therese and Schwarz, Nina (2022) Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 104 (6). pp. 1138-1156. doi:10.1162/rest_a_01031
|
PDF
WRAP-infant-health-cognitive-performance-earnings-evidence-inception-welfare-state-Sweden-Bhalotra-2021-.pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (2646Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01031
Abstract
We identify earnings impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention in Sweden, using individual linked administrative data to trace potential mechanisms. Leveraging quasirandom variation in eligibility, we estimate that exposure was associated with higher test scores in primary school for boys and girls. However only girls were more likely to score in the top quintile. Subsequent gains, in secondary schooling, employment, and earnings, are restricted to girls. We show that the differential gains for women accrued from both skills and opportunities.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics | |||||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | |||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Infant health services -- Sweden, Child welfare -- Sweden, Early childhood education -- Sweden, Children with social disabilities -- Services for -- Sweden -- Evaluation | |||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Review of Economics and Statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | MIT Press | |||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0034-6535 | |||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | November 2022 | |||||||||||||||
| Dates: |
|
|||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 104 | |||||||||||||||
| Number: | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1138-1156 | |||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_01031 | |||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the author’s final version, and accepted for publication in The Review of Economics and Statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||||||||
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
