The focus of this paper is on functional health status of children in the population. More specifically, we examine a … single aspect of functional health status -- intellectual development of children. In a multivariate context, we examine the … relationships between the health indexes and cognitive development of children from six to 11 years of age in Cycle II of the U …

This paper is an empirical exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in a … feedback both from health to cognitive development and from cognitive development to health, but the latter of these … health and cognitive development over the life cycle. The second finding suggests that nurture "matters" in cognitive …

In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … show that when health measures from mid-childhood are the subject of analysis, both income and race differences are much … less pronounced than they are in infant mortality and birth weight data. We do find differences in the health status of …

The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of … white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and … seldom statistically significant. Indeed, some health problems -- high blood pressure, allergies, and tension -- are more …

's cognitive development and their health. Although there is a large literature concerning the first of these issues, there has … been little work on the latter. We also explore interrelationships between various aspects of children's physical health … and their intellectual development and, in particular, attempt to answer the important question of whether poor health …

effects of the minimum wage on child health. We employ data from the National Survey of Children's Health in conjunction with … health. A particularly interesting finding is that much of the benefits of a higher minimum wage are associated with the …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …

, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with …

Michael Grossman's seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of children and infants. A rationale … for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from reducing adult cigarette … of smoking, smoking behaviors, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …