the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and state-level data on child mortality, we examine … notable reductions in child mortality. Finally, we find that rising Medicaid eligibility is associated with reductions in … racial disparities in the number of visits and in child disparities in the site at which care is delivered …

children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of …

their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

-sectional estimates are quite different from the Fixed Effects estimates of the impacts of amenities locating near a child. In cross …

a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor …, while reducing behavior problems. These negative consequences are quite small for the average child, however, and usually … work during the child's fourth through ninth year …

: becoming eligible increased the probability that a child had a doctor's visit more for immigrants than non-immigrants, but …

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … 7, 11 and 16 in the U.K. National Child Development Survey 1958 cohort show larger effects. The extra gains persist when …-looking children, any relation between looks and a child's behavior, his/her victimization by bullies or self-confidence. Results from …