PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan
AU  - Sievertsen, Hans Henrik
AU  - Wüst, Miriam
TI  - Beyond Treatment Exposure–The Impact of the Timing of Early Interventions on Child and Maternal Health
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0421-11583R2
DP  - 2022 May 09
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0421-11583R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/05/02/jhr.0421-11583R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/05/02/jhr.0421-11583R2.full
AB  - This paper studies the impact of the timing of early-life investment policies on child and maternal health. We exploit variation induced by a nurse strike in Denmark, 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 early but not later visits increases subsequent child and mother contacts to health professionals. We show that likely mechanisms for these results include nurses’ focus on timely maternal mental health screening and information provision to new families.