Evaluating insurance coverage at the individual level abstracts away from the family-level decision making behind … parents and children, and even among children in different age groups. Having different insurance sources, or a mix of insured … and uninsured members of a family, may be disruptive to consistent medical care. In this paper we investigate how changes …

insurance to allow adult children to age 26 to remain on their parents' policies. We establish that the incidence of the mandate … child in the family to the situation where the child is not the youngest (so the family could add a dependent to existing … family coverage). We find that incidence falls mainly on households where the newly-eligible child is the youngest in the …

and 2019 and the number of uninsured children increased. This study provides the first national, quantitative assessment … coverage. In addition, we undertake to identify the groups of children who were most affected by administrative burden. We show … mean of 5.4 percent within the year following the implementation of these changes. Declines were largest for children …

We analyze the impact of expanded adult Medicaid eligibility on the Medicaid enrollment of already-eligible children … for the chance to apply for Medicaid. Children in these households were eligible for Medicaid irrespective of whether the … household won the lottery. We estimate statistically significant but transitory impacts of adult lottery selection on children …

needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low … Child Tax Credit (CTC), which provided monthly, unconditional cash payments to families with children from July to December …. We find some evidence that the credit reduced medical hardships, reduced reliance on friends and family for food, and …

studies reveal about its impacts on family investment mechanisms and children's outcomes. We specifically highlight gaps in …Children represent the largest indirect beneficiaries of the U.S. social welfare system. Yet, many questions remain … about the direct benefits of cash aid to children. The current understanding of the impacts of cash aid in the U.S. is drawn …

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous … research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a … regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when children become ineligible for WIC and examine nutritional and laboratory …