bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county … sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from …

. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further this research by … air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is …

,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result … socioeconomic gradient in health …

We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality …

from awell specified behavioral model of the production of health, which is estimated with the appropriate simultaneous …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

that policies matter for infant health, particularly those affecting access to health care, and that prenatal smoking and …Michael Grossman’s seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the …

In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We …

implications of insurance-induced treat- ment differentials for health outcomes. We address these issues in the context of the … in the health of infants, as measured by neonatal mortality. But the effect of eligibility on neonatal mortality is … sizeable among children born to mothers whose closest hospital had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, suggest- ing that insurance …