to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 … these children in the past decade are responsible for the decline in the importance of income. We find that while …

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) significantly expanded public insurance eligibility and coverage … for children in "working poor" families. Despite this success, it is estimated that over 6 million children who are … eligible but uninsured children is to determine how the take-up of public coverage varies within the population. Because of …

increased the coverage of children, presumably by raising the benefit to the family of applying for coverage. We find …

they were with prior Medicaid expansions focused on children just above the poverty line. Crowd-out of private health … regression results imply that between 4% and 10% of children meeting income eligibility standards for the new program gained … public insurance. While low, these estimates indicate that states were more successful in enrolling children in SCHIP than …

In this study we analyze the effect of Medicaid on children's heath. We examine the effect of Medicaid on a variety of … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper … provide at best weak support for the hypothesis that Medicaid improves the health of low-income children …

Recent research suggests that parental job loss has negative effects on children's outcomes, including their academic … loss on children's health. We combine health data from 16 waves of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which allows us to … loss is detrimental to the physical and mental health of children in low-socioeconomic status (SES) families, increasing …

A rich literature documents the benefits of social safety net programs for children. This paper focuses on an … unexplored margin: how children's programs impact parents' well-being. We explore changes in children's public health insurance … expansions in the 1980s and 1990s, we isolate variation in children's Medicaid eligibility due to changes in government policies …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …