During the 1990s many states extended Medicaid eligibility to low-income parents who were not receiving welfare. We … increased the coverage of children, presumably by raising the benefit to the family of applying for coverage. We find …

scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions … of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third ….1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed …

the potential positive benefits of such programs to children. Initially, this research on benefits to children focused on … long-run benefits to children are considered, many safety net programs are cost-effective. However, the current government … the US is still higher than most OECD countries and how research on children and the safety net can better inform policy …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …

children at birth. This work sheds new light on the health production process as well as observed income gradients in health … and children via reductions in violence …

Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid, the public health insurance … to Medicaid given that children are typically enrolled when they become sufficiently sick as to require hospitalization …. In addition, enrolling children in Medicaid before they get sick promotes the use of preventative care, reduces the need …

children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support … and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect …

). We consider the possible implications of this expansion on children's short- and long-term development. To do so, we … of similar income transfers in childhood on child health and human capital. We conclude that the CTC likely improved … child health and well-being in the short and long run, with greater impacts for poor children and modest or nonexistent …