This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives … to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing …

.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 …

investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … impacts of Indonesia's cash transfer program (PKH) six years after the program launched, using data from about 14 …,000 households in 360 sub-districts across Indonesia, taking advantage of the fact that treatment and control locations remained …

that promote child health. This study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey - Birth Cohort to explore the causal … effect of breastfeeding on development across the early years of childhood. We examine a range of health, physical, and … health at 9 months. Furthermore, they are protective against obesity and improve cognitive outcomes at 24 months and 54 …

benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … of days with poor mental health and the fraction reporting excellent or very good health improved relative to the mothers …

children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First …

birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of …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 …

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 … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …

This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan … indeed cause favorable infant health outcomes. The increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant …