School health programs: education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults

Signe A. Abrahamsen, Rita Ginja and Julie Riise
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Signe A. Abrahamsen: Institute for Fiscal Studies
Julie Riise: Institute for Fiscal Studies

No W21/20, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: 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 avail-ability 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.

Date: 2021-07-08
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