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Caution, Drivers! Children Present : Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2013

Since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA), atmospheric concentration of local pollutants has fallen drastically. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further this research by addressing two related research questions: (1) what is the...

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The Impact of Mothers' Earnings on Health Inputs and Infant Health

Mocan, Naci H. - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of mothers' earnings on birth weight and gestational age of infants. It also analyzes the impact of earnings on mothers' consumption of prenatal medical care, and their propensity to smoke and drink during pregnancy. The paper uses census-division- and...

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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema - 2010

food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …

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Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical Care, and Child Health

Currie, Janet - 2008

the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and state-level data on child mortality, we examine … notable reductions in child mortality. Finally, we find that rising Medicaid eligibility is associated with reductions in … racial disparities in the number of visits and in child disparities in the site at which care is delivered …

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Inside the War on Poverty : The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

Almond, Douglas - 2010

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP...

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The Returns to Early-Life Interventions for Very Low Birth Weight Children

Chyn, Eric T. - 2019

We use comprehensive administrative data from Rhode Island to measure the impact of early-life interventions for low birth weight newborns on later-life outcomes. We use a regression discontinuity design based on the 1,500-gram threshold for Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) status. We show that...

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Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

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Evolution of the Infant Health Production Function

Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; Reichman, Nancy - 2021

Michael Grossman’s seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the published literature to date on infant health...

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From the Cradle to the Labor Market? the Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other...

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Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion : Effects on Pregnancy Resolutions and Birth Weight

Currie, Janet; Nixon, Lucia; Cole, Nancy - 2021

Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the number of unhealthy fetuses that are carried to term. In this paper we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding...

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