We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

This paper investigates whether the health of children affects the likelihood that their parents divorce. Using data … to live in poverty, this finding suggests that children's health problems could be the cause rather than the result of … from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, and the 1970 British …

The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and … marginal diagnoses across family members, thereby raising caseloads and health care costs, but without improving patient well …" patients often has minimal impacts. This paper shows that reliance on information about relatives' health can perpetuate …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 - 2009 together with additional administrative data. Both a single-level model and a multi … on birth weight. The results imply that infant health can be improved by using prenatal care adequately. The study calls … availability of skilled health care providers such as doctors and nurses at prenatal care clinics, reducing the average distances …

The study investigates the effect of wealth on maternal health care utilization in Ghana via its effect on Antenatal … care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … before delivery. The study is pivoted on the introduction of the free maternal health care policy in April 2005 in Ghana with …