Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab

Tania Barham

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, vol. 4, issue 1, 245-73

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).

JEL-codes: I15 I18 J13 J18 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.4.1.245
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