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 …

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 …

In western countries, accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children, far surpassing diseases as a … maternal employment on unintentional injuries to children vary by demographic group, with the effects being positive for blacks … winners and losers. In particular, while some children may benefit from safer environments, others that appear to be squeezed …

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

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