The retail clinic is an innovation that has the potential to improve competition in health care markets. Given concern … about inefficient use of the emergency room (ER) increasing health care costs, we use all ER visits in New Jersey from 2006 …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early … of data and identification to study the long reach of childhood health in developing countries. Health in early life may … be a more significant determinant of adult outcomes in these countries because health insults are more frequent, the …

This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in …

implications of insurance-induced treat- ment differentials for health outcomes. We address these issues in the context of the … in the health of infants, as measured by neonatal mortality. But the effect of eligibility on neonatal mortality is …

We assess evidence from randomized control trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor … focus on cash transfer and child health programs, and show that a meaningful subset can realistically be evaluated for long …

Hill-Burton Act. We examine delivery care and the health of newborns using the universe of Florida births from 1989 … patient characteristics, they provided less intensive maternity services but without compromising patient health. When …. There they received more intensive services, but did not experience improvements in health. These results suggest that …