Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284213 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 22/43
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) offering disadvantaged children preschool and family support services in the US show long-lasting health impacts. Can these benefits hold when these programs are offered to all children in contexts with universal healthcare? We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England, exploiting its 11-year rollout and administrative hospitalizations data. One additional Sure Start centre per thousand age-eligible children increases hospitalizations by 10% at age 1, but reduces them by 8-9% across ages 11-15. Impacts are concentrated in disadvantaged areas and likely driven by both health and non-health services.
Subjects: 
early childhood intervention
health
difference-in-differences
JEL: 
I10
I14
I18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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