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The Economics Of Childbearing: Three Essays, Andrea Kutinova
The Economics Of Childbearing: Three Essays, Andrea Kutinova
Doctoral Dissertations
Expenditure programs, business cycles, and government interventions can affect many decisions surrounding the birth of a child. For example, public insurance programs such as Medicaid have the potential to increase the utilization of prenatal care. This, in turn, may lead to better infant and maternal health outcomes. Given the high and increasing number of pregnant women covered by Medicaid, the effectiveness of the program in promoting prenatal care use and improving health needs to be evaluated. Also, the impacts of business cycles on childbearing are of interest to policymakers. For example, does unemployment substantially affect the decision to conceive a …
Family Structure, The State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip) And Child Outcomes, Minghua Li
Family Structure, The State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip) And Child Outcomes, Minghua Li
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation consists of three separate but interrelated essays that investigate how family structure and public policy are linked to health and developmental child outcomes. Each essay employs two or three waves of the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) as the primary data source. The first essay broadly investigates how family structure, including the less typical non-traditional families such as single father and grandparent households, are related to a wide of array of child outcomes with a focus on the interplay of parent-child gender. The results from this study show that children in single father families have better health …