Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab
利用孟加拉国Matlab项目的准随机分配，研究发现早期儿童健康干预对8-14岁儿童的认知功能有0.39个标准差的正面影响，身高和受教育程度也有类似改善。
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.