We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across counties with different application rates under IRCA's large …

suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal …

remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of …

intake falls and food insecurity increases, suggesting that mothers protect children by consuming less themselves. We find no …The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous … research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a …

-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low …