This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two … main causes of market failure in the market for child health inputs — lack of information and externalities — are analyzed …

context of universal public health insurance and universal drug coverage …

The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … insurance to previously ineligible groups will increase health status or even utilization of medical resources. Using data from … the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and state-level data on child mortality, we examine …

The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … insurance to previously ineligible groups will increase health status or even utilization of medical resources. Using data from … the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and state-level data on child mortality, we examine …

We study the effect of public insurance for children on their utilization of medical care and health outcomes by …