Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We … study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …-sections. In contrast to concerns voiced in the public discourse, the effects on a range of maternal and infant health outcomes are …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

Does the establishment of private property rights to land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? We exploit a … variation in its timing to identify its health and nutrition impacts. We find that young children aged 0-5 exposed to land … long-term health and nutrition. Health improvements appear to be driven by increases in consumption of home-produced food …