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 chapter provides an overview of the literature linking health, health insurance and labor market outcomes such as … first part of the paper focuses on the relationship between health and labor market outcomes. The empirical literature … surveyed suggests that poor health reduces the capacity to work and has substantive effects on wages, labor force participation …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

Poor and uneducated patients may not know what health care is desirable and, if fully insured, have little incentive to …

implications of insurance-induced treat- ment differentials for health outcomes. We address these issues in the context of the … in the health of infants, as measured by neonatal mortality. But the effect of eligibility on neonatal mortality is …

Hill-Burton Act. We examine delivery care and the health of newborns using the universe of Florida births from 1989 … patient characteristics, they provided less intensive maternity services but without compromising patient health. When …. There they received more intensive services, but did not experience improvements in health. These results suggest that …