literature on child health has focused on one such intervention, the provision of public health insurance. However, the …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 …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains. -- medical technology ; birth ; home birth ; mortality …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains …

Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased …-income countries and may question the effectiveness of care. Using the 2007/08 Botswana Family Health Survey data collected by … birth weight information is not available for all infants, we also estimate a Heckman sample selection model to account for …

There is extensive empirical evidence on the link between socio-economic status (SES) and child health outcomes …. However, there is some international evidence that the SES gradient in child health is weaker for objective indicators of … child health (e.g., anthropometric measures such as height) than for subjective indicators (e.g., parental assessments of …

We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model …

cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit … the longitudinal dimension of the data and deal with a range of selection issues. We distinguish between effects on labor …

We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of … design, we consistently find no health benefits from obstetrician supervision, despite increased rates of neonatal intensive …