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 …

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 …

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 …

health insurance coverage. The size of this effect is similar for both the privately insured and those with Medicaid coverage …, suggesting that even black urban children with private health insurance may have difficulty obtaining access to preventative care …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human …

, and health status using data from the National Child Development Study. The study has followed the cohort of children born … that LBW has significant long-term effects on self-reported health status, educational attainments, and labor market … women of LBW are less likely to report that they are in poor or fair health than other LBW women …