. Are birth outcomes of physician mothers affected as a result? Using Texas birth data from 2007-2014, we compared birth … outcomes between physicians and another highly educated group, lawyers, and between surgeons and non-surgeon physicians … Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians …

virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes … variables ; child health production functions …

particular, subsidized mothers report lower levels of overall health and are more likely to show symptoms consistent with anxiety … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …

presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes, using unique linked … crimes, and focus on mothers who lived in a home where an assault was reported during their pregnancies. We compare these … mothers to women who lived in a home with an assault that took place shortly after the birth. We find that assaults in the 3rd …

in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …. Racial disparities swamp these income disparities, with no racial convergence in health outcomes as income rises. A … comparison with Sweden shows that infant and maternal health is worse in California at virtually all income levels. …

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 …-in-differences design. We find that closures lead mothers to experience a significant change in birth procedures such as inductions and C …

Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we …

HIV-positive men's treatment consumption and health outcomes. To establish a causal relationship between reviews and … for individuals who are in worse health and thus face stronger incentives to choose more effective medication despite side … health investments in the presence of adverse treatment side effects. …

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the …