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 …

Three quarters of American children have been exposed to neighborhood violence in their lifetimes. Most of the existing … outcomes. However, this literature fails to account for the fact that children exposed to neighborhood violence are highly … disadvantaged in other ways: they are more likely to be black, poor and have poorly educated parents. As such, it is not clear …

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 …

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 …

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 …