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Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...
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children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …
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We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking behavior,...
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controlling for maternal scores, there are significant gaps in the scores of black and white children which suggests that maternal …, conditional on maternal AFQT. We argue that racial gaps in test scores matter because even within families, children with higher … outcomes may help us unravel the complex process through which poverty is transmitted across generations …
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