suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …

We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of … advertising. Heterogeneity in brand preferences explains 40 percent of geographic variation in market shares. These preferences … years in the past still exerting a significant effect on current consumption. Counterfactuals suggest that brand preferences …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public … of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …

A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …

We utilize clinical records of successive visits by children to pediatric clinics in Indianapolis to estimate the … effects on their body mass of environmental changes near their homes. We compare results for fixed-residence children with … reversed in the FE estimates. The recreational amenities that appear to lower children's BMI were fitness areas, kickball …

.js?config=AM_HTMLorMML-fullquot;gt;lt;/scriptgt;In our opinion, the trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated accurately. We use five models to estimate … the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and adolescents ages 2-19 born 1941-2006 on the basis of …

the short and long term for parents, children, and society at large. This paper examines the causal link between teen age …