physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented--but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … use birth records from California, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in … the year after birth, to study the causal health effects of cesarean delivery for low-risk first births. Building on …

We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health … grandmother fixed effects. The significant role of both maternal and paternal health at birth in explaining offspring health at … at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child …

-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two first children of the same sex on the probability of an incremental …

of their treatment-contingent outcomes. We use the method to study how child birth affects female labor supply in Denmark …. We find limited latent heterogeneity and large short-term effects that vanish by 18 months after birth. We support the …

We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference … health. MMLs had no significant effect on maternal substance use disorder hospitalizations nor on newborn health and fairly …

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved … health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event study framework with Vital Statistics natality data. Our results show … that average birth weight increased, and low birth weight incidence decreased after a CHC opened in the mother's county of …

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … selection of mothers choosing to give birth or due to behavioral changes. We study the relationship between the unemployment … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers …

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 …

We make use of a new data resource, merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 …, to study the effects of birth weight on cognitive development from kindergarten through schooling. Using twin fixed … effects models, we find that the effects of birth weight on cognitive development are essentially constant through the school …