Session 88:
Policy and Child Health in the U.S.
Chair: Julie DaVanzo, RAND
Discussant: Dean Jolliffe, U.S. Department of Agriculture (DOA)
Making Babies Healthier by Providing a Managed Care Option to California's Poor Tania Barham, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley ; Kristiana Raube, University of California, Berkeley
Disparities in Primary Care by Race and Ethnicity among Medicaid Children in California Arpita Chattopadhyay, University of California, San Francisco
Is There Adverse Self-Selection of Children with Special Health Care Needs in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)? Tamarie Macon, Rutgers University ; Jane E. Miller, Rutgers University ; Dorothy Gaboda, Rutgers University ; Theresa Simpson, Rutgers University ; Joel Cantor, Rutgers University
The Effects of Head Start Participation on Child Health from Kindergarten to the 5th Grade Fuhua Zhai, Columbia University
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