effects of the minimum wage on child health. We employ data from the National Survey of Children's Health in conjunction with … health. A particularly interesting finding is that much of the benefits of a higher minimum wage are associated with the …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …

, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with …

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989 …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …

Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health … policy. This is because low birth weight (LBW) infants experience severe health and developmental difficulties that can … impose enormous costs on society. But would the prevention of LBW generate equally sizable cost savings and health …

Michael Grossman's seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of children and infants. A rationale … for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from reducing adult cigarette … of smoking, smoking behaviors, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …

Nutrition is a key input in the health production function, and a better understanding of how we eat can aid in guiding … effective policy change towards better population health. This study documents prevalence rates, trends in, and potential … real GDP per capita, labor force participation, and health care measures in a nation can partly explain the increase in …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility … expansions for pregnant women and children during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine effects on several prenatal health …