children at birth. This work sheds new light on the health production process as well as observed income gradients in health … and children via reductions in violence. …

children with higher endowments due to the complementarity between endowments and investments (static complementarity). For the … endowment based on health at birth. When we do, we find that parents invest more in highly endowed children. Moreover, we find … in endowments (from more children) and greater reinforcing investments. These findings can be explained by extending the …

children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support … and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect …

Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid, the public health insurance … to Medicaid given that children are typically enrolled when they become sufficiently sick as to require hospitalization …. In addition, enrolling children in Medicaid before they get sick promotes the use of preventative care, reduces the need …