Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family … structure within an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey's Child Health Supplement, with a … whether it increases her chance of living in an extended family. Using two different measures of child health, we find that …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility … expansions for pregnant women and children during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine effects on several prenatal health …