Browsing Working Papers by Subject "health"

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    • Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 
      Collins, William J.; Thomasson, Melissa A. (Vanderbilt University, 2002)
      This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large ...
    • Head Start Participation and Childhood Obesity 
      Frisvold, David (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem that also has economic consequences. Medical research suggests that nutritional interventions at a young age can influence nutritional behavior and reduce childhood ...
    • Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start 
      Anderson, Kathryn; Foster, James; Frisvold, David (Vanderbilt University, 2004)
      Head Start is a comprehensive, early childhood development program designed to augment the human capital and health capital levels of disadvantaged children. Grossman's (1972) health capital model suggests that early ...