We study the effect of public insurance for children on their utilization of medical care and
health outcomes by exploiting recent expansions of the Medicaid program to low-income …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I
first lay out a simple economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss …

The largest growth in entitlement program spending in the United States over the past fifteen
years has been in the Medicaid program, which provides health insurance to low-income …

OBJECTIVE. This study identifies factors differentiating Medicaid participating physicians
who accept all Medicaid patients from those limiting their Medicaid participation. DATA …

While efforts to improve the health of the uninsured have focused on demand side policies
such as increasing insurance coverage, supply side changes may be equally important. Yet …

Objective. To examine how access to outpatient medical care varies with local primary care
physician densities across primary care service areas (PCSAs) in the rural Southeast, for …

Medicaid cut-backs during the Reagan Administration may have combined with other factors
to affect physicians' willingness to participate in Medicaid. The author analyzed participation …

We use data from the National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) to measure the effects of the
growth of Medicaid managed care on children. We examine both the probability that …

Data from two waves of the Child-Mother module of the National Longitudinal Surveys are
used to examine the medical care received by children. We compare those covered by …

The fraction of the US population that is foreign born has risen dramatically over the past two
decades from 4.7 percent in 1970 to 7.9 percent in 1990 (Banister 1994). First-and second …