Closing Gender Gaps in India: Does Increasing Womens' Access to Finance Help?

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care Among Children: How Does Medicaid Do in Closing the Gaps? - Report

The views expressed are those of the authors, and should not be interpreted as being those of the Congressional Budget Office. Acknowledgments Special thanks to Steve Machlin from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for his statistical assistance and helpful comments. Introduction Since the mid-1980s, Medicaid has become an increasingly important source of health coverage for low-inc...

Does prenatal care increase access to child immunization? Gender bias among children in India.

Prenatal care appears to serve as a trigger in increasing the chances for access to subsequent health care services. Although several previous studies have investigated this connection, none have focused specifically on how parents' behavior differs before and after learning the gender of their babies. Investigating parents' behavioral changes after the child's birth provides a quasi-natural ex...

Closing the knowledge gaps.

Closing the health gaps.

For several decades, epidemics of chronic, non-contagious diseases have been observed in the developed countries worldwide. However, considerable health differences are noted between countries, even on the same continent, as well as between individual population groups in particular countries. These differences are very clearly observable in Europe. Professor Zatoński in his studies (HEM, PONS ...

Closing Achievement Gaps

groups are a prominent feature of today’s educational landscape, with black and Hispanic children regularly falling far behind white children. Although the achievement gaps narrowed somewhat during the 1970s and 1980s, they have since proved stubbornly resistant to closing further. If the nation is to achieve the goal of equal education as “a fact and a result,” to borrow President Lyndon Johns...