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

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 …

important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 … these children in the past decade are responsible for the decline in the importance of income. We find that while …This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data …

difference-in-differences strategy to account for unobserved differences between students with access to SBP and those without … findings. First, the SBP helps students build good eating habits: SBP increases scores on the healthy eating index, reduces the … serum micronutrient deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin E, and folate, and it increases the probability that children meet …

children. We examine both the probability that individual children were Medicaid-covered and their utilization of care. We find … children are more likely to be enrolled in Medicaid where Medicaid managed care organizations are more prevalent, whereas black … children are less likely to be enrolled. Also, toddlers are less likely to be enrolled than school age children. These lower …

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 …

abortion. Our results suggest that restrictions do increase the probability that African-American and low income women carry a …