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 …

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 … future health. This may indicate that adequate medical care early on puts children on a better health trajectory, resulting …

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 … future health. This may indicate that adequate medical care early on puts children on a better health trajectory, resulting …

We study the effect of public insurance for children on their utilization of medical care and health outcomes by … exploiting recent expansions of the Medicaid program to low-income U.S. children. These expansions doubled the fraction of … children eligible for Medicaid between 1984 and 1992. Take-up of these expansions was much less than full, however, even among …

, suggesting that even black urban children with private health insurance may have difficulty obtaining access to preventative care …Distance to hospital may affect the utilization of primary preventative care if children rely on hospitals for such … utilization of preventative care among central-city black children. For these children, each additional mile from the hospital is …