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Adolescent Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Correlates of Adult Health

Kaestner, Robert - 2009

While it is widely acknowledged that the family and childhood environments affect adult well being, why they matter is still an area of significant debate. Previous research concerned with this issue has focused on the influence of family income, family structure, and cognitive ability. Much of...

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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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Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement

Kaestner, Robert - 2010

model specifications that controlled for a variety of observed characteristics of the child and his or her mother, and time …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …

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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health

Wehby, George - 2016

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. We examine the impact of the state minimum wage on infant health. Using data on the universe of births in the US over 24 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is associated with an increase in birth...

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Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health : A National Evaluation

Kaestner, Robert; Dubay, Lisa; Kenney, Genevieve - 2021

In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We obtain separate estimates of the effect of primary care case management (PCCM) managed care programs and HMO managed care plans on prenatal care utilization, birth weight, and...

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The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

Kaestner, Robert; Lee, Won Chan - 2021

Welfare reform has resulted in a dramatic decline in welfare caseloads and some have claimed that a significant number of low-income women may be without health insurance as a result. The loss of insurance may reduce low-income, pregnant women's health care utilization, and this may adversely...

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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Child Health

Wehby, George; Lyu, Wei; Kaestner, Robert; Dave, Dhaval - 2021

effects of the minimum wage on child health. To obtain estimates, we use data from the National Survey of Children’s Health in … associated with a significant improvement in child health. A particularly interesting finding is that much of the benefits of a …

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Early Childhood Health Shocks and Adult Wellbeing : Evidence from Wartime Britain

Schiman, Jeffrey C. - 2017

A growing literature argues that early environments affecting childhood health may influence significantly later-life health and socioeconomic status. In this article, we present new evidence on the relationship between infant mortality and later-life outcomes using variation in infant mortality...

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Medicaid Expansions and the Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance

Yazici, Esel Y.; Kaestner, Robert - 2021

In this paper, we re-examine the question of crowd out among children. Our primary contribution is the use of longitudinal data. These data allow us to identify several groups of children depending on whether their eligibility for Medicaid was affected by the eligibility expansions, and to...

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The Effects of Child Health on Marital Status

Corman, Hope; Kaestner, Robert - 2022

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family … structure within an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey's Child Health Supplement, with a … sample of about 9,000 families to test whether having an unhealthy child decreases the mother's chance of being married, and …

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