Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67285 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6864
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns infants special care at a specific birth weight cutoff. Using detailed administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0.15-0.22 standard deviations.
Subjects: 
child development
neonatal care
regression discontinuity
JEL: 
I38
J13
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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