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It demands of us that we attend to the enormous unmet needs in child and adolescent mental health, that we recognize the paucity of services precisely where needs are greatest, and that we insist on action to remedy the treatment gap. Some 30 years ago, Julian Tudor Hart, a primary care physician practicing in a low income community in Wales, proposed an inverse care law. It reads: “The availability of good medical care varies inversely with the need for it in the populations served.” Nothing better illustrates this proposition than the data in this Atlas on how few child psychiatrists. | I z A DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 2516 Parental Education and Child Health Evidence from a Schooling Reform Maarten Lindeboom Ana Llena-Nozal Bas van der Klaauw December 2006 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Parental Education and Child Health Evidence from a Schooling Reform Maarten Lindeboom Free University Amsterdam Tinbergen Institute HEB Netspar and IZA Bonn Ana Llena-Nozal Free University Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute Bas van der Klaauw Free University Amsterdam Tinbergen Institute CEPR and IZA Bonn Discussion Paper No. 2516 December 2006 IZA . Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone 49-228-3894-0 Fax 49-228-3894-180 E-mail iza@ Any opinions expressed here are those of the author s and not those of the institute. Research disseminated by IZA may include views on policy but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor IZA in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks research support and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in i original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics ii development of policy concepts and iii dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. IZA Discussion Paper No. 2516 December 2006 ABSTRACT Parental Education and Child Health Evidence from a Schooling Reform This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To .