pregnancy, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health … minimum wage on infant health. Using data on the universe of births in the US over 24 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 …

Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily … identification of causal effects is particularly challenging in this literature because women enter pregnancy with varying states of … health, resources and the desire to have a child and it is not feasible to conduct randomized controlled trials that deny …

There is a large literature suggesting that "WIC works" to improve birth outcomes. However, methodological limitations … related to selection into the WIC program have left room for doubt about this conclusion. This paper uses birth records from … affect selection into the WIC program. We find that WIC is associated with reductions in low birth weight, even among full …

.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses …, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on maternal health behaviors, birth weight and gestation weeks. We find … little difference in maternal health behaviors associated with state-level EITC. In contrast, results for key infant health …

, and using a direct measure of infant health does not always yield input estimates similar to those when using birth weight …We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement …-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and characterization of infant health. The TUVs represent wantedness, taste for risky …

We make use of a new data resource, merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 …, to study the effects of birth weight on cognitive development from kindergarten through schooling. Using twin fixed … effects models, we find that the effects of birth weight on cognitive development are essentially constant through the school …

impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … documented—but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

the year after birth, to study the causal health effects of cesarean delivery for low-risk first births. Building on …Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers …. The interpretation of this correlation, however, is confounded by potential selectivity in the choice of birth mode. We …

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … selection of mothers choosing to give birth or due to behavioral changes. We study the relationship between the unemployment … behaviors, and babies' health Using national data from the Natality Files from 1975 onward, we find that babies conceived in …

using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by …. We find robust evidence that working in a relatively more strenuous job during pregnancy raises the likelihood of fetal …