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sizeable among children born to mothers whose closest hospital had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, suggest- ing that insurance … coverage under the Medicaid program over this period. Among teen mothers and high school dropouts, who were largely uninsured …
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on mothers and children compared to HCA. Our findings suggest that shifting child care from the home to the market …We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when … their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance …
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regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce … increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are …
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There is a coming wave of novel genetic therapies aiming to treat rare pediatric disease. A large literature investigates the valuation of new treatments, but the valuation of treatments for rare pediatric illness raises a host of unique issues. In this paper, we review the challenges of...
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A key question for health care reform in the U.S. is whether expanded health insurance eligibility will lead to improvements in health outcomes. We address this question in the context of dramatic expansions in the Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women that took place during the 1980s. We...
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I consider the effects of "group-specific mandated benefits", such as mandated maternity leave, which raise the costs of employing a demographically identifiable group. The efficiency of these policies, relative to more broad-based financing of benefits expansions, will largely be a function of...
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There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths pursue these risky activities: for example, youth...
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terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child … with a significant shift in the types of hospitals at which children are treated, with fewer children treated in public …
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We estimate the impact of changes in abortion access in the early 1970s on the average living standards of cohorts born in those years. In particular, we address the selection inherent in the abortion decision: is the marginal child who is not born when abortion access increases more or less...
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to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural …
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