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 …

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 …

Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new … on drink driving and road collisions. Estimates from a supply-of-offenses function suggests that the reform did not have …

indicator and administrative datasets on hospitalizations (2004-2016) and birth certificates (2002-2019). Findings show …

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