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 …

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 …

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 …

Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys are used to compare the medical care received by children covered by … Medicaid with that of other similar children. The longitudinal dimension of the data is exploited as we examine differences … probability of both black and white children receiving routine checkups but with increases in the number of doctor visits for …