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effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …
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Using data on over 420,000 first time Dutch mothers, we examine the effects of postpartum antidepressant use on a wide …
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This paper specifies and estimates an econometric model of low and very low birthweight rates for counties in the U.S. for the years 1975-1984. We focus on the impact of several specific public policy actions on use of prenatal care and the subsequent effect on birthweight outcomes. Our results...
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are achieved at zero financial cost. Survey evidence suggests that these single-sex effects reflect both direct gender …
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We investigate whether local average treatment effects (LATE's) can be extrapolated to new settings. We extend the analysis and framework of Dehejia, Pop-Eleches, and Samii (2015), which examines the external validity of the Angrist-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two...
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We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and...
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This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a … teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … gender identity formation, has so far been overlooked. Accordingly, our key theoretical innovation is how the utility …
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Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...
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Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics’ management through timely appointment cancellations...
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A central issue in designing performance incentive contracts is whether to reward the production of outputs versus use of inputs: the former rewards efficiency and innovation in production, while the latter imposes less risk on agents. Agents with varying levels of skill may perform better under...
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