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Using data on over 420,000 first time Dutch mothers, we examine the effects of postpartum antidepressant use on a wide range of maternal outcomes including further treatment for severe mental illness, labor market outcomes, and family formation. We exploit rules which state that Dutch general...
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children are released into the air. In this paper we estimate the effect of these releases on the health of newborns. Using …
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We use United States birth record data to estimate the effect of e-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws on cigarette use and birth outcomes for pregnant teenagers. While these laws may have reduced e-cigarette use, we hypothesize that these laws may have also increased cigarette use during...
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and 2019 and the number of uninsured children increased. This study provides the first national, quantitative assessment … coverage. In addition, we undertake to identify the groups of children who were most affected by administrative burden. We show … mean of 5.4 percent within the year following the implementation of these changes. Declines were largest for children …
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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous … research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a … regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when children become ineligible for WIC and examine nutritional and laboratory …
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, led to significant terror and disruptions in daily life over a three-week period. We compare birth outcomes of children …
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tests. These effects are stronger in counties where both parents and children have higher educational aspirations. Hence … stakes testing for college entry. Leveraging age cutoffs for school entry in Taiwan, we compare August-born children to … children born in September of the same year. The former hit all the milestones one year earlier than the latter, enabling us to …
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