to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural …

Infants and Children (WIC) has accomplished this goal, but most studies have been based on research designs that compare …

We analyze the effects of states' expansions of CHIP eligibility to children in higher income families during 2002 … rate among these children. Because not all of the take-up of public insurance among eligible children is accounted for by … children who transfer from being uninsured to having public insurance, our results suggest that there may be some crowd-out of …

HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of … treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours …

. We find evidence of a large negative discontinuity at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children ages 5-9 from causes …

Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) mandated that all plans cover the cost and administration of childhood vaccines. We … associated with differential changes among poor and near-poor children relative to their non-poor counterparts in either age … to non-poor children after implementation of SCHIP. The increase was greater among children from urban areas, among …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is …