Early-Life Access to a Basic Health Care Program and Adult Outcomes in Indonesia
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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Access to primary care during early life
can have substantial benefits in developing countries. This
study evaluates the long-run impact of the Village Midwife
Program in Indonesia. It utilizes the roll-out-variation of
the program and link individual background and community
characteristics in early childhood to adult outcomes in the
Indonesian Family Life Survey. It finds that the presence of
a midwife in a community in utero leads to an improvement in
overall health, cognition, and economic outcomes among men,
but not for women. Greater receipt of antenatal care and
skilled birth-attendance could, in part, drive these results.
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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, MIDWIFE, ADULT HUMAN CAPITAL, BASIC HEALTH CARE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, PRENATAL CARE