Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions

Research Network on Later Life Interventions to Reverse Effects of Early Life Adversity

Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement.

This paper studies the effect of improved early life health care on mortality and long-run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW ), which assigns infants special care at a specific birth weight cutoff. Using detailed administrative data on schoo...

WIC Contract Spillover Effects

Under the U.S. Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the three major infant formula manufacturers compete for WIC supply contracts, state by state. Policy makers have been puzzled by why the contracted WIC price is extremely low compared to the non-WIC price. Our explanation is that winning the WIC contract is extremely valuable to a manufacturer because of a...

Effects of delayed psychosocial interventions versus early psychosocial interventions for women with early stage breast cancer.

OBJECTIVE The importance of psychosocial counselling after a diagnosis of cancer has been acknowledged and many intervention studies have been carried out, with the aim to find out which types of intervention are most effective in enhancing quality of life in cancer patients. A factor which could be part of effective counselling could be the time of offering psychosocial counselling. The aim of...

Informative Advertising with Spillover Effects∗

This paper studies the effects of advertising in a Bertrand duopoly model with informative advertising, which is an extension of Grossman and Shapiro (1984). It introduces spillover advertising effects on top of the direct advertising effects. Also, the model involves R&D activities, which make the model dynamical. It is shown that the spillover effects would make the environment more monopolis...