supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is … meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We … study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …-sections. In contrast to concerns voiced in the public discourse, the effects on a range of maternal and infant health outcomes are …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

during pregnancy. Moreover, those who did not use assisted reproductive technology present a higher prevalence of these … better health at birth even conditional on the observable maternal characteristics which predict selection. …

-range of birth outcomes, including birth weight, gestational age and an indicator of general newborn health. We control for … of having a late birth and negatively affected newborn health - with the largest effects for earthquakes that occurred in … the first and third trimesters of pregnancy. Our estimates are similar when we focus on just the impact of the initial …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of …'s smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …

exposure to violence during the first trimester of pregnancy leads to a small but precisely estimated increase in the risk of …, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence … compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a result of their households' lower socioeconomic status. …