This study seeks to provide new evidence on the health and education effects of the Children's Health Insurance Program … among school-age children. We use a simulated eligibility instrument to address the endogeneity of enrollment in CHIP due to …

shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This …

How does welfare affect the prosperity of mothers and their children? We study this question using a Canadian welfare … reform and by linking administrative welfare records to tax returns, nearly all medical spending, and children's educational … despite reduced transfers. We find precise zero effects on total health expenditures for both mothers and children. However …

, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant … children's regular growth check-ups and deworming treatments, consistent with an increased awareness of children's weight and …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …