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Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
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,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …
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occupational choices, which reflect their comparative advantage. We merge records on children hospitalized with poliomyelitis …
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This paper exploits the original introduction of Medicaid (1966-1970) and the federal mandate that states cover all cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid...
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In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult … antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART … the availability of ART increased the likelihood that children in households with HIV positive household heads started …
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We create a national-level longitudinal data set to analyze how children's participation in public and voucher …
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occupational sorting; first-born children are more likely to be managers, while later-born children are more likely to be self …-employed. We also find that earlier born children are more likely to be in occupations that require leadership ability, social … evidence of lower parental human capital investments in later-born children …
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Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated...
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This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to air pollution on adult outcomes using U.S. administrative data. We exploit changes in air pollution driven by the 1970 Clean Air Act to analyze the difference in outcomes between cohorts born in counties before and after...
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-year variation in public health insurance expansions that targeted low-income pregnant women and children. We use restricted use …
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