pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families … income on infant health. We measure the total amount of pandemic payments received during pregnancy, or the year before birth … children (parity). Estimates indicate that these pandemic cash payments had no statistically significant, or clinically or …

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 …