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In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by … 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …
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of children ages 5 to 12. We examine whether wealth prior to birth and at ages 4 or 5 affects academic test scores and … children. We also examine associations between different forms of wealth (e.g., home equity) and child achievement and …
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enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …-migrants, but fell among migrants, with the opposite pattern for working. For children (7 to 14), enrolment did not change among non … increased for both children and adolescents. We find evidence that healthcare utilization decreased for both children and …
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, are other consequences of the minimum wage that stem from changes in a household's income and labor supply. We examine the … effects of the minimum wage on child health. We employ data from the National Survey of Children's Health in conjunction with …
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Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …
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income, family structure, and cognitive ability. Much of this research has focused on economic and social outcomes. Notably …
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of low-income women may be without health insurance as a result. The loss of insurance may reduce low-income, pregnant … utilization and health of pregnant women and infants because of welfare-induced changes in family disposable income, time …
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In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We obtain separate estimates of the effect of primary care case management (PCCM) managed care programs and HMO managed care plans on prenatal care utilization, birth weight, and...
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provide at best weak support for the hypothesis that Medicaid improves the health of low-income children …In this study we analyze the effect of Medicaid on children's heath. We examine the effect of Medicaid on a variety of … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper …
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In this paper, we re-examine the question of crowd out among children. Our primary contribution is the use of … longitudinal data. These data allow us to identify several groups of children depending on whether their eligibility for Medicaid … was affected by the eligibility expansions, and to investigate whether changes in insurance coverage of children affected …
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