, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

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 …