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Rita Ginja

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bergen
Verified email at uib.no
Cited by 922

Long-term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from Head Start

P Carneiro, R Ginja - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014 - aeaweb.org
This paper provides new estimates of the medium- and long-term impacts of Head Start on
health and behavioral problems. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the …

Parental leave benefits, household labor supply, and children's long-run outcomes

R Ginja, J Jans, A Karimi - Journal of Labor Economics, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study how parental leave benefit levels affect household labor supply, family income, and
child outcomes, exploiting the speed premium (SP) in the Swedish leave system. The SP …

The health effects of universal early childhood interventions: Evidence from Sure Start

S Cattan, G Conti, C Farquharson, R Ginja, M Pecher - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We evaluate the short-and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a large-scale and
universal early childhood program in England. We exploit the rollout of the program and …

School health programs: Education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults

S Abrahamsen, R Ginja, J Riise - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools
and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation …

Does Your Doctor Matter? Doctor Quality and Patient Outcomes

R Ginja, J Riise, B Willage, A Willén - NHH Dept. of Economics …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality
in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment …

The health effects of Sure Start

S Cattan, G Conti, C Farquharson, R Ginja - 2019 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
From lagging well behind most European countries in the early 1990s, the UK is now one of
the highest spenders on the under-5s in Europe (OECD, 2014). One of the biggest …

Employer responses to family leave programs

R Ginja, A Karimi, P Xiao - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion
in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms’ adjustment costs …

Partial insurance and investments in children

P Carneiro, R Ginja - The Economic Journal, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental
investments in children. We use panel data on family income and an index of investments in …

Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile

P Carneiro, E Galasso, R Ginja - The Economic Journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study a Chilean programme that combines home visits to households in extreme poverty
with guaranteed access to social services. Its goal was to connect marginalised families to …

Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation

S Baziki, R Ginja, T Borota Milicevic - 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper provides new evidence on the reallocation of workers across firms and industries
with different technologies in response to increased import competition from developing …