, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers. …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements. …

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …