We examine differences in the prescribing of psychiatric medications to low-income and higher-income children in the … that conditional on diagnosis and medical history, low-income children are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics and … benzodiazepines than higher-income children who see the same doctors. These are drugs with potentially dangerous side effects that …

The objective of this study is to use data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS … publicly-insured children in states that raised fees vs. in states that did not. We also consider a triple difference … specification using privately-insured children as the comparison group. Our findings indicate that raising the Medicaid primary care …

children respond to healthcare prices. We find that free care significantly increases outpatient spending, with price …

home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the stock of … abuse on children born to mothers in the initial cohort of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national … household survey of high school students aged 14-22 in 1979. We follow 1587 children aged 1-5 in 1987, observing them throughout …

contributions include using a broad sample of children and estimating sibling fixed effects models to control for unobserved family … effects. In this paper we look at a sample of older children and confirm and extend many of the JCMS findings in terms of a …