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This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two … main causes of market failure in the market for child health inputs — lack of information and externalities — are analyzed …
