Missing a Nurse Visit

Miriam Wüst, Jonas Lau-Jensen Hirani and Hans Sievertsen ()
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Jonas Lau-Jensen Hirani: The Danish Center for Social Science Research (VIVE)

No 20-09, CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of the timing of early-life investment policies on child and maternal health. We exploit variation induced by a 2008 Danish nurse strike that resulted in a large-scale cancellation of home visits for families with infants. Combining unique nurse records with administrative data, we show that missing the first but not later visits increases child and mother contacts to health professionals and the probability of maternal mental health issues. We show that likely mechanisms for these results include nurses’ focus on timely maternal mental health screening and information provision to new families.

Keywords: early-life health; early interventions; nurse home visiting; parental investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I12 I14 I18 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 73
Date: 2021-07-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-gen and nep-hea
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