Discharge on the day of birth, parental response and health and schooling outcomes

Hans Henrik Sievertsen; Miriam Wüst

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.06.012

Discharge on the day of birth, parental response and health and schooling outcomes

Hans Henrik Sievertsen^*, Miriam Wüst

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Exploiting the Danish roll-out of same-day discharge policies after uncomplicated births, we find that treated newborns have a higher probability of hospital readmission in the first month after birth. While these short-run effects may indicate substitution of hospital stays with readmissions, we also find that—in the longer run—a same-day discharge decreases children's 9th grade GPA. This effect is driven by children and mothers, who prior to the policy change would have been least likely to experience a same-day discharge. Using administrative and survey data to assess potential mechanisms, we show that a same-day discharge impacts those parents’ health investments and their children's medium-run health. Our findings point to important negative effects of policies that expand same-day discharge policies to broad populations of mothers and children.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Health Economics
Volume	55
Pages (from-to)	121-138
Number of pages	18
ISSN	0167-6296
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.06.012
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Early investments
Long-run health
Parental response
Postpartum hospital stay
Schooling outcomes

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