the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing …

the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing …

1900-1940, and using a rich data set that we assembled from primary sources, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed … reduced maternal mortality by 6 to 7 percent. In addition, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed may have had led to … merits of licensing midwives. …

clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In-state abortions fell 20% and births rose 3% in counties … that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Births increased 1% and contraceptive purchases rose 8% in …

: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …

increases the effective use of contraception. Reduced child mortality seems to be another important pathway linking access to …

increases the effective use of contraception. Reduced child mortality seems to be another important pathway linking access to …

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 … meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …