children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not …

and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of …

in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …

siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare …

. Using a population database of births in Northern Ireland linked to localised geographic information on pollution in mothers … once we implement a fixed effects approach that accounts for time-invariant factors common to mothers. While reducing …

Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …-experimental literature on lead and fertility, infant mortality, and infant birth outcomes, highlighting key results, methods, and …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …

modest reductions in nonwhite infant mortality and mortality among children under the age of 2 from diarrhea. These estimates … reduced maternal mortality by 6 to 7 percent. In addition, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed may have had led to …