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 …

health insurance coverage. The size of this effect is similar for both the privately insured and those with Medicaid coverage …, suggesting that even black urban children with private health insurance may have difficulty obtaining access to preventative care …

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 …

health insurance coverage. The size of this effect is similar for both the privately insured and those with Medicaid coverage …, suggesting that even black urban children with private health insurance may have difficulty obtaining access to preventative care …

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 …

child mental health problem. Our innovations include the use of large nationally representative samples of children, the use … that mental health conditions are a more important determinant of average outcomes than physical health conditions …