children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children … time and across ages in children's health insurance eligibility. Using this approach, we find that test scores in reading …, but not math, increased for those children affected at birth by increased health insurance eligibility. A 50 percentage …

students who survive them, highlighting the impact of indiscriminate, high-fatality incidents. Initially, we focus on test …, such as those that occurred at Sandy Hook and Columbine, have considerable adverse effects on students exposed to them. We …

rapidly among black students than among whites, at least in part because black Head Start" children are more likely to …Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out …' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National …

Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for … care. We examine the effects of these three types of policies (changes in income eligibility, administrative reforms, and ….S. births between 1990 and 1996. We find that increases in income cutoffs increased the use of prenatal care, while decreases in …

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits … Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's welfare exposure is substantial. By age 10 over one-third of all … children will have lived in a welfare household; black, non-Hispanic children face a much higher rate of exposure. Simple …

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

and on the utilization of medical services among children of natives and children of immigrants. Children of immigrants … Medicaid regulations, I find that recent expansions of eligibility had negligible effects on Medicaid coverage among children … of immigrants, although coverage rose among children of the native born. Among immigrants in border states, eligibility …

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 …