The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public … of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

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

sizeable among children born to mothers whose closest hospital had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, suggest- ing that insurance …

increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are … regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce …

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child … with a significant shift in the types of hospitals at which children are treated, with fewer children treated in public …