McKinnish, Terra; Rees, Daniel I.; Langlois, Peter H. - In: Economics & Human Biology 15 (2014) C, pp. 120-128
This paper tests whether the strength of the “spring spike” in birth defects is related to agricultural production and … urban location using Texas Birth Defects Registry data for the period 1996–2007. We find evidence of a spike in birth … defects among children conceived in the spring and summer, but it is more pronounced in urban non-agricultural counties than …