BACKGROUND The recently enacted State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), designed to provide affordable health insurance for uninsured children, was modeled in part on New York State's Child Health Plus (CHPlus), which was implemented in 1991. All SCHIP programs involve voluntary enrollment of eligible children. Little is known about characteristics of children who enroll in these pro...

This study aimed to evaluate the factors associated with the decision to attend an academic post-graduation program by dental students. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012, last-year undergraduate students from Dental Schools of Southern Brazil. A closed questionnaire was applied including questions grouped in three different blocks: pre-graduate, undergraduate period and future persp...

There is growing recognition that interventions designed to improve human nutritional status have, in addition to their intrinsic value, instrumental value in terms of economic outcomes. In many cases, productivity gains alone provide sufficient economic returns to justify investments using benefit and cost criteria. The often-held belief that nutrition programs are welfare interventions that d...

"A model of the spatial distribution of mobile heterogeneous agents is formulated to assess how a price change or program subsidy that is location-specific affects the composition of local residents via selective migration and thus biases evaluations of the effectiveness of the program based on its local consequences. Longitudinal data from Colombia are used to test the implications of migrati...

Between 1968 and 1978 four negative income tax experiments were conducted; they were designed to measure labor supply and earnings. The experiments were not designed to measure the effects of government programs on such demographic behavior as marital dissolution, fertility, family composition, or the decision to marry or remarry. Nevertheless, the data from the experiments have been used to an...

The characteristics of families with low incomes are often studied in detail in order to assist in the development of policies and programs that will improve their economic position. In contrast, there is generally very little analysis of the characteristics of families at the top of the income ladder, possibly because of a lack of data on this small group. The Census of Canada is the only surv...

This paper chal lenges the widely c i t e d f inding of Groeneveld, Hannan, and Tuma t h a t the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment provides evidence t h a t guaranteed income plans f o r poor husband-w i f e fami l i e s w i 11 inc rease mar i ta l d i s so lu t ions . The conclusion of t h i s paper i s t ha t the plans ( s p e c i f i c a l l y , the negat ive income tax plans in t...