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

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

and on the utilization of medical services among children of natives and children of immigrants. Children of immigrants … Medicaid regulations, I find that recent expansions of eligibility had negligible effects on Medicaid coverage among children … of immigrants, although coverage rose among children of the native born. Among immigrants in border states, eligibility …

of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …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 …