have related health problems in infancy and beyond. Despite these outcomes, many women still smoke during pregnancy. The …Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to have significant adverse health effects for new born babies. Smoking is the …

of child welfare and that these entitlement programs may well have positive impacts on the health and development of …

implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … health of past populations therefore originated in part in the first days of life." …

of low-birthweight births is the health outcome. Because we are able to control for the race-specific percentage of women …, family status, and employment. The paper presents an aggregate time-series analysis of unemployment and infant health that … proxy for maternal stress enters the production function as one among a set of well-defined health Inputs. Third, because a …

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … behaviors, and babies' health Using national data from the Natality Files from 1975 onward, we find that babies conceived in … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers …

not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of human health and prosperity has become much more favorable than …

over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … because they are the two most important sources of human capital: knowledge capital and health capital. There is a large …

analysis is unique for several reasons. First, we restrict the analysis to women on Medicaid and or WIC who have no previous … between WIC and non-WIC participants by limiting the sample to women who initiate prenatal care early and who have no …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further …