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Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make : The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970

Isen, Adam - 2014

This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to air pollution on adult outcomes using U.S. administrative data. We exploit changes in air pollution driven by the 1970 Clean Air Act to analyze the difference in outcomes between cohorts born in counties before and after...

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When Dad Can Stay Home : Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health

Persson, Petra - 2019

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these issues in the context of a critical period in family...

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Violence while in Utero : The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2018

Evidence about the effects of violent crime on victims is sparse, but is necessary to determine the social costs of crime and the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. We present new evidence about the effects of violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes,...

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Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes : Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic

Gensowski, Miriam - 2018

occupational choices, which reflect their comparative advantage. We merge records on children hospitalized with poliomyelitis …

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Weathering the Storm : Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2012

A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...

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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low … monotonically with income, and infants of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution---who have the worst birth outcomes … records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file …

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