despite reduced transfers. We find precise zero effects on total health expenditures for both mothers and children. However …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 …

on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further … provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible …

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 …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … improved anthropometric health outcomes for these children in later years. The gains are found to be higher for children who …