physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented — but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

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 … associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …

the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are … academic performance and diagnosed mental health to investigate whether one parent is systematically a better informant of …

around every year and causes strong inflammatory responses in pregnant women. Using administrative data from Denmark, I …-wide influenza spread and information on individual mothers who suffer strong infections during pregnancy. In the short term …, maternal influenza leads to a doubling of prematurity and low birth weight, by triggering premature labor among women infected …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking bans in the workplace. Analyzing a 2004 … law change in Norway that extended smoking restrictions to bars and restaurants, we find that children of female workers … in restaurants and bars born after the law change saw significantly lower rates of being born below the very low birth …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …

children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … occur in the year of birth and the year before birth limit the degree to which child health is tied to family circumstance …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …

This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes …, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative … birth record dataset in China. During the sample period in the 1990s, migration was limited in rural China, allowing us to …