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

Author(s) -

Tania Barham

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.4.1.245

Subject(s) - psychological intervention , cognition , early childhood , psychology , cognitive skill , developmental psychology , term (time) , educational attainment , psychiatry , economic growth , economics , physics , quantum mechanics

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).

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