the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing …

Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer …

cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock …

reductions in disability rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention levels of …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant … incidence of low birth weight and school enrollment for teenagers, with worsening results associated with GDP declines. …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and …