Freight transportation is characterized by a variety of dynamic information processes: the demands of customers, the performance of people and equipment, and the performance of the network. In addition, large networks are characterized by how they organize decisions and information: who makes what decision with what information? This paper approaches...
The paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,031) to explore the issues among a cohort of 3 year old children. It finds that children living with a substance-abusing parent are at considerable risk for poor health and behavior outcomes, that such risk is...
This paper estimates the effects of having a young child in poor health on mothers' reliance on TANF and other sources of public support within this new regime. The effects on maternal labor supply found in other studies would suggest that having a child in poor health would increase reliance...
The findings of this paper suggests more attention be paid to health as a potential mechanism through which intergenerational transmission of economic status takes place: cohort members born into poorer families experienced poorer childhood health, lower investments in human capital and poorer health in early adulthood, all of which are...
This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to selection among women choosing to give birth or to behavioral changes. The paper gives the study of the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's conception and...
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effects of poor child health on parents' relationship status. It describes the measures used in analyses and present summary statistics from the data. The paper uses data from the national longitudinal Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect...
This paper presets health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US, which are large and have been growing. The paper hypothesizes that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because people that are more educated are better able to take advantage of technological advances in medicine than are the...
An important challenge in designing policy initiatives to address the problem of uninsured children is that the objectives implicit in the programs can conflict. These conflicts necessitate prioritizing multiple objectives and identifying acceptable tradeoffs in order to achieve effective policy design that reflects the nation's social priorities. This article provides...
This article describes some American states' creative strategies to increase children's enrollment in health insurance by connecting Medicaid and SCHIP with other public programs for low-income children and families. These strategies, referred to as "express lane eligibility" ELE, have the potential to significantly increase the number of low-income children with...
This article focuses on efforts to provide publicly funded health insurance to low-income children in the United States through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. Public health insurance coverage for children has evolved into a national policy priority. Together, these programs have made substantial progress in reducing...
This article frames some of the issues and draws on the most current research to point to solutions to persistent problems. The article begins by discussing the importance of health insurance for children's access to health care and describes the progress that has been made in providing coverage for children....
This article reviews the entire spectrum of coverage for children in the United States: private and public health insurance, and no health insurance. It places particular emphasis on the main features of Medicaid and SCHIP. The ways that these programs have influenced and benefited each other are also considered, as...
As the examples discussed in this article suggest, premium assistance toward employer-based family coverage could provide a sensible coverage source for many low-income children, while helping assure that State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP coverage complements the employer coverage system for most non-poor children. Nonetheless, this approach presents challenges. Early...
This article focuses on efforts to provide publicly funded health insurance to low-income children in the United States through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. The article summarizes current knowledge and research about which children are uninsured and why, and describe the innovative strategies states have used...
This article describes the particular health care needs of adolescents and explores the extent to which public health insurance programs are meeting those needs. It includes an overview of the coverage available to adolescents through Medicaid and SCHIP, how that coverage has evolved, the importance of providing comprehensive benefits to...
Over the past decade, expansions under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP have brought a significant infusion of federal dollars into state and county health systems and have produced a variety of state-level programs. The article begins by describing these two county-level programs and comparing the approach...
Using individual-level on males, data from the 1988-1991 National Health Interview Survey Multiple Cause of Death Files, the paper examines the impact of relative deprivation within a reference group on health. It uses measures of relative deprivation based on Yitzhaki's index and defines reference groups using combinations of state, race,...
The purpose of the paper is to examine the capabilities of unwed fathers. Knowing more about fathers' capabilities is important for assessing the potential success of welfare reform insofar as the new welfare law envisions a much larger role for unwed parents in supporting their children. Time limits and work...
This paper uses a cost benefit approach to assess the incremental value of increased response rates on the composition of fathers in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national probability sample of new parents. Most of the fathers in this study are unwed, poor, and live in large...
This paper uses data on Medicaid-eligible women who participated in New Jersey's comprehensive prenatal care program to test some assumptions. The paper finds that smoking, drinking, and using drugs during pregnancy have very strong adverse effects on birth outcomes. However, it also finds no evidence that the HealthStart interventions designed...
