It’s a long walk: Lasting effects of maternity ward openings on labour market performance
(2023) In The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(6). p.1411-1425- Abstract
- Being born in a hospital versus having a traditional birth attendant at home represents the most common early life policy change worldwide. By applying a difference-in-differences approach to register-based individual-level data on the total population, this paper explores the long-term economic effects of the opening of new maternity wards as an early life quasi-experiment. It first finds that the reform substantially increased the share of hospital births and reduced early neonatal mortality. It then shows sizable long-term effects on labour income, unemployment, health-related disability and schooling. Small-scale local maternity wards yield a larger social rate of return than large-scale hospitals.
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- Lazuka, Volha LU
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- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
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- The Review of Economics and Statistics
- volume
- 105
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 1411 - 1425
- publisher
- MIT Press
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- scopus:85178882605
- ISSN
- 0034-6535
- DOI
- 10.1162/rest_a_01134
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- English
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series = {{The Review of Economics and Statistics}},
title = {{It’s a long walk: Lasting effects of maternity ward openings on labour market performance}},
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doi = {{10.1162/rest_a_01134}},
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year = {{2023}},
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