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 …

violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes, using unique linked administrative data from New York City. We compare … annual cost of over $4.25 billion. Since infant health is a strong predictor of life-long well-being and women of lower …

A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This …

stress, our results are supportive of the idea that stressful events in pregnancy can damage the health of the fetus. However …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a … racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income …