Despite the potential role of a mother’s health insurance coverage in enhancing her children’s health and well …-being, research examining its impact on children’s nutritional outcomes remains sparse. We examine the link between mothers’ health …-scores and weight-for-age z-scores, respectively. After addressing endogeneity, we found that mothers’ health insurance …

Background: Malnutrition is a prevalent public health concern in Ghana. While studies have identified factors that … inequality. Thirdly, decomposition analysis was conducted to determine the role of mother's education and health insurance …, respectively. Finally, health insurance contributed about 1.91 and 1.03 % to inequality in HAZ and WAZ, respectively. Conclusion …

, 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 …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …

effects of public health coverage and maternal employment on children's health outcomes among the single-mother families. The … coverage for her children. Results suggest that the effectiveness gap between the publicly provided health insurance and … effects on children's health outcomes especially at early stages of their lives …