. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost …-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we compare health upstream and downstream from wastewater treatment … weight by 8 grams. A back-of-the-envelope calculation bounds infant health benefits below $29 billion …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

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

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 …

of children from poorer families …

Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health … policy. This is because low birth weight (LBW) infants experience severe health and developmental difficulties that can … impose enormous costs on society. But would the prevention of LBW generate equally sizable cost savings and health …

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 …

This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights … senior citizens, whose health is not expected to be affected by parental leave. More generous leave rights are found to … reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially for those …