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TOPIC:
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SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAMS: EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND WELFARE DEPENDENCY OF YOUNG ADULTS
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ABSTRACT
This paper provides novel evidence that low-cost preventive health care services delivered at schools have positive and lasting impacts. Variation comes from a 1999-reform in Norway that changed the availability of health professionals at schools across municipalities and cohorts. The reform increased the supply of school nurses by 35% in treated municipalities. The reform reduced teenage pregnancies and increased college attendance for girls. Among adults between 25 and 35 years old, the reform reduced the take-up of welfare benefits and for women it increased planned use of primary and specialist health care services.
Keywords: School Health Services, Teenage Pregnancy, Welfare Dependency, Utilization of Health Services, Health Status.
JEL Codes: H75, I10, I12, I28, I30, I38
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PRESENTER
Rita Ginja
University of Bergen
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RESEARCH FIELDS
Labor Economics
Education Economics
Health Economics
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DATE:
17 March 2023 (Friday)
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TIME:
4pm - 5.30pm
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VENUE:
Meeting Room 5.1, Level 5
School of Economics
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903
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