Essays in the microeconometric analysis of child health determinants

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/39197
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-391978
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2015
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Berg, Gerard J. van den
Date of oral examination:	7 July 2015
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Law and Economics > Alexander v. Humboldt Professor in Econometrics and Empirical Economics (van den Berg 2009-2016) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics)
Subject:	310 Statistics 330 Economics
Classification:	JEL: I13, I14, I18, J13,
Subject headings (SWD):	Gesundheit , Ungleichheit , Kindheit , Ökonometrie , Evaluation , Kausalität
Keywords (English):	child health , inequality , human development , income gradient , health insurance , microeconometrics
Abstract:	Previous research showed that child health has a long-run impact on health and labor market outcomes in adulthood and that it varies with the economic background of the family. This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters, each of which explores a different determinant of child health. The determinants investigated are: copayments for health care in childhood (chapter 2), guidelines for health care of newborn infants (chapter 3) and economic conditions during pregnancy (chapter 4). Using a detailed administrative data set from Sweden and employing microeconometric methods that help identify causal relationships, each chapter estimates the effect of the determinant on child health and – in chapters 2 and 4 – how it depends on family background.