@article{754493b438a54814a174fc01fab81c0c,
title = "Child health as human capital",
abstract = "Child health is increasingly understood to be a critical form of human capital, but only recently have we begun to understand how valuable it is and how its development could be better supported. This article provides an overview of recent work that demonstrates the key role of public insurance in supporting longer term human capital development and points to improvements in child mental health as an especially important mechanism.",
keywords = "adolescent health, child health, human capital, mental health, public health insurance",
author = "Janet Currie",
note = "Funding Information: I am grateful to the International Health Economics Association's Basel 2019 Congress and particularly to Stefan Felder of the Local Organizing Committee for the invitation to deliver the mid‐conference plenary where this work was first presented. Gunther Fink, other conference participants, and the editorial board of provided helpful comments. I am also grateful to my coauthors Douglas Almond, Hannes Schwandt, Mark Stabile, and Anna Chorniy for permission to use some of the figures from our joint work. The author gratefully acknowledges funding from the Nomis foundation to pursue research on child mental health. Health Economics Funding Information: I am grateful to the International Health Economics Association's Basel 2019 Congress and particularly to Stefan Felder of the Local Organizing Committee for the invitation to deliver the mid-conference plenary where this work was first presented. Gunther Fink, other conference participants, and the editorial board of Health Economics provided helpful comments. I am also grateful to my coauthors Douglas Almond, Hannes Schwandt, Mark Stabile, and Anna Chorniy for permission to use some of the figures from our joint work. The author gratefully acknowledges funding from the Nomis foundation to pursue research on child mental health. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1002/hec.3995",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "452--463",
journal = "Health Economics (United Kingdom)",
issn = "1057-9230",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Ltd",
number = "4",
}