that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one …-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a difference-in-differences design to individual-level data on the population … of births and fetal deaths, we identify modest but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal …

aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics … 1940. Moreover, birth control clinics had a significant and meaningful negative effect on the incidence of stillbirths and …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or postpartum depression. Instead, they are related to mothers' higher … investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …

live births and strongest for very low birth weight infants. A decline in quality of medical care due to the sudden … WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To …

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the … extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill … diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at first birth, completed family size, and childlessness. Both genes and …

substantially for 3-4 years following a child's cancer diagnosis. Fathers' incomes recover fully, but mothers' incomes remain 3 … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …