. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further this research by … air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is …

birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …

Michael Grossman’s seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

of children from poorer families …

Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid, the public health insurance … to Medicaid given that children are typically enrolled when they become sufficiently sick as to require hospitalization …. In addition, enrolling children in Medicaid before they get sick promotes the use of preventative care, reduces the need …

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … behaviors, and babies' health Using national data from the Natality Files from 1975 onward, we find that babies conceived in … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers …