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Currie, Janet - 2011

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...

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Life Shocks and Homelessness

Curtis, Marah A. - 2011

We exploit an exogenous health shock--the birth of a child with a severe health condition--to investigate the causal … effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been …

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Weathering the Storm : Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2012

A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...

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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success : Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Greve, Jane - 2015

This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...

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Out of Africa : Human Capital Consequences of in Utero Conditions

Lavy, Victor - 2016

This paper investigates the effects of environmental conditions during pregnancy on later life outcomes using quasi-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 24th 1991. Children in utero prior to immigration faced dramatic differences in medical care...

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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

Almond, Douglas - 2012

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in...

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Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life

Aizer, Anna - 2018

their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

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The Children of the Missed Pill

Rau, Tomás - 2017

We use sharp, massive and unexpected price increases of oral contraceptives—product of a documented case of collusion among pharmaceutical retailers in Chile—as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of access to the Pill on fertility and newborn health. Our empirical strategy combines...

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Season of Birth and Later Outcomes : Old Questions, New Answers

Buckles, Kasey - 2010

Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are conceived by women with different socioeconomic...

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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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