Affiliation:
1. University of Colorado at Boulder, 483 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309.
Abstract
It is believed that early life circumstances are crucial to success later in life. Yet causal evidence that the impacts of early childhood health interventions continue into late childhood and adolescence is sparse. This paper exploits a quasi-random placement of the Matlab Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Program in Bangladesh to determine whether children eligible for child health interventions in early childhood had better cognitive functioning at ages 8–14. I find a program effect of 0.39 standard deviations on cognitive functioning and similar effects for height and educational attainment (JEL I15, I18, J13, J18, O15).
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Cited by
23 articles.
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