experiment, mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers were provided recipe books to lower …

Medicaid coverage of children using state administrative data from Georgia. Our analysis focuses on children enrolled in … children were slightly more likely to exit during the first "high impact" recertification in which the enhanced citizenship … verification was binding than children whose first recertification occurred just prior to the reform. In addition, we observe a …

of children. We employ a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the location-specific timing of MMC implementation in … are concentrated among low-income children and absent for high-income children. We find no evidence of “crowd …

when health shocks do arise: for several chronic conditions, children from higher-income households are less likely to be … reported as being in poor health than children from lower-income households who have the same chronic conditions. The latter …The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature …

piston-engine aircraft. Deposition of lead from avgas may pose a health risk to children proximate to airport facilities that …Lead is a neurotoxin with developmentally harmful effects in children. In the United States, over half of the current … service lead-emitting aircraft. Extrapolating from epidemiological evidence on the health and human capital costs of lead …

Most people in rural China have no plans for retirement other than the ingrained Chinese tradition that children care … experienced rapid development in the beginning years but grounded to halt after 1998. Since either children or pension program … larger than that of an additional daughter. In addition, both evidence from mini-census and China Health and Retirement …

This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers …

This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …