supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …

pregnancy, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health … minimum wage on infant health. Using data on the universe of births in the US over 24 years, we find that an increase in the … minimum wage is associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The …

pregnancy, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health … minimum wage on infant health. Using data on the universe of births in the US over 24 years, we find that an increase in the … minimum wage is associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The …

care and newborn health outcomes is scarce. In 2008, Uruguay’s Ministry of Public Health implemented a P4P called Metas … certain maternal and newborn healthcare goals. Health organizations use these funds to provide maternal and child health … Asistenciales program on maternal and newborn health outcomes. We find that in the institutions affected by the program, 10 …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further …

compared with other, less-deprived, areas. Particular challenges for Manchester include the prevalence of poor health, low …

Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased … Statistics Botswana, the paper jointly estimates the adequate prenatal care utilization (input demand) and infant birth weight … reduces the likelihood to both adequately utilize prenatal care and report infant birth weight. The likelihood for prenatal …