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Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs : Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions
Reichman, Nancy E. - 2006
We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement error. We focus on the importance of typically unobserved but theoretically important variables (TUVs), other non-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466667
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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland
Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015
This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457716
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Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement
Scholder, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler - 2014
and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458824
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Marijuana Liberalization Policies and Perinatal Health
Meinhofer, Angelica; Witman, Allison E.; Hinde, Jesse M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference-in-differences estimator that exploited variation in effective dates of medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana laws (RML). We found that the proportion of maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629516
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Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data
Currie, Janet - 2002
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469345
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The Health Effects of Cesarean Delivery for Low-Risk First Births
Card, David - 2018
Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … use birth records from California, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in … significant effects on mothers' hospitalizations or ED use after birth, or on subsequent fertility, but we find a ripple effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453222
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2016
education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456442
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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra - 2014
two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458685
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421186
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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes
Markowitz, Sara - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453997