vaccination rate increases among children at school entry following an outbreak in the year prior. A large outbreak in the county … can decrease the share of unvaccinated children by 28% (1.2 percentage points). These responses do not reflect true …

that the younger siblings and cousins of marginally diagnosed children are also more likely to be diagnosed with and … treated for ADHD. Moreover, we find that the younger relatives of marginally diagnosed children have no better adult human …

In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult … antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART … the availability of ART increased the likelihood that children in households with HIV positive household heads started …

The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public … of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …

enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …-migrants, but fell among migrants, with the opposite pattern for working. For children (7 to 14), enrolment did not change among non … increased for both children and adolescents. We find evidence that healthcare utilization decreased for both children and …

data on the universe of Danish children and their healthcare providers, we first construct and validate a measure of …