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Does Publicly Provided Health Insurance Improve the Health of Low-Income Children in the United States
Kaestner, Robert - 2000
) of hospital discharges. Using the NHIS, we examine the effect of Medicaid participation on maternal ratings of child …
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Parental Education and Child Health : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
Chou, Shin-Yi - 2010
This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759780
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Chip Shots : Association between the State Children's Health Insurance Programs and Immunization Coverage and Delivery
Joyce, Theodore - 2009
By age two a child who is up to date for immunizations will have received up to 19 shots delivered over eight visits at …-appropriate immunization rates or in the proportion of vaccines delivered by private providers. We show that the probability that a child was …-poor child obtained all vaccines at a private provider fell relative to the same probability among non-poor children over the …
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Effects of Peer Counseling to Support Breastfeeding : Assessing the External Validity of a Randomized Field Experiment
Altindag, Onur - 2015
In an effort to improve breastfeeding, the Oregon WIC Program tested whether a relatively low-cost telephone peer counseling initiative to support breastfeeding could increase the initiation and duration of exclusive breastfeeding among its participants. They conducted a large randomized field...
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The Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Cocaine on Newborn Costs and Length of Stay
Joyce, Theodore; Racine, Andrew; McCalla, Sandra; … - 2021
This paper determines newborn costs and lengths of stay attributable to prenatal exposure to cocaine and other illicit drugs, using as a data source all parturients who delivered at a large municipal hospital in New York City between November 18, 1991 and April 11, 1992. We performed a...
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health Revisited
Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore - 2022
Hoynes, Miller and Simon (2015), henceforth HMS, report that the national expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is associated with decreases in low birth weight. We question their findings. HMS’s difference-in-differences estimates are unidentified in some comparisons, while failed...
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The Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Birth Weight : Measurement Error in Binary Variables
Kaestner, Robert; Joyce, Theodore; Wehbeh, Hassan - 2021
This paper develops a method to correct for non-random measurement error in a binary indicator of illicit drugs. Our results suggest that estimates of the effect of self reported prenatal drug use on birth weight are biased upwards by measurement error -- a finding contrary to predictions of a...
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