Currie, Janet; Moretti, Enrico - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (2003) 4, pp. 1495-1532
We examine the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using Vital Statistics Natality data for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking, marriage, and fertility. In an effort to...