with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again …

effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …

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 … mothers' earnings and employs a two-sample instrumental variables strategy. About 14 million records of births between 1989 …

, hospitals posed a greater risk for black mothers prior to the availability of sulfa drugs in 1937, and were less beneficial for …

coverage under the Medicaid program over this period. Among teen mothers and high school dropouts, who were largely uninsured … sizeable among children born to mothers whose closest hospital had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, suggest- ing that insurance …

migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …, low-skilled with high fertility preferences always stay, and only an endogenously determined fraction of high …