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 analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … birth and on the use of prenatal care and infant health, controlling for year and state effects and state-specific trends … construct estimates of the effect of health insurance on use of prenatal care and infant health. We find that the eligibility …

consistent with prior work on the favorable impact of SP on maternal health (Sosa-Rubí, Galárraga, Harris 2009). …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …

-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by …, triggered by the program, had an impact on women's attitudes towards matters that impact women's health and on attitudes … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …

We study how advances in scientific knowledge affect the evolution of disparities in health. Our focus is the 1964 … Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health - the first widely publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health … levels, while the less educated did not, and that the relative health of their newborns likewise increased. We also find …

We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment …, WWII and death records. Male children of accepted applicants lived one year longer than those of rejected mothers. Male … children of accepted mothers received one-third more years of schooling, were less likely to be underweight, and had higher …

effects, and test for the potential endogeneity of child health. Mothers with children in poor health are 5 percentage points …We estimate the effects of having a child in poor health on the mother's receipt of both cash assistance and in …-kind public support in the form of food, health care, and shelter. We control for a rich set of covariates, include state fixed …