Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child … with a significant shift in the types of hospitals at which children are treated, with fewer children treated in public …

regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce … increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are …

sizeable among children born to mothers whose closest hospital had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, suggest- ing that insurance …

to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural …

of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public …

their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance … also negatively affect the early childhood cognitive test results of children, decrease the likelihood of choosing academic … on mothers and children compared to HCA. Our findings suggest that shifting child care from the home to the market …