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Air Pollution and Infant Health : Lessons from New Jersey

Currie, Janet - 2008

We examine the impact of three "criteria" air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by combining information about mother's residential location from birth certificates with information from air quality monitors. In addition to large sample size, our work offers three important...

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Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?

Currie, Janet - 1991

-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the … study of transfer programs focuses on the incentive effects of the programs for parents rather than on the question of … whether parental participation in such programs measurably benefits children. This paper begins to fill this gap in the …

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Does Prenatal WIC Participation Improve Child Outcomes?

Chorniy, Anna V. - 2018

Large literatures document positive effects of WIC on birth outcomes, and separately connect health at birth and future outcomes. But little research investigates the link between prenatal WIC participation and childhood outcomes. We explore this question using a unique data set from South...

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Out of Africa : Human Capital Consequences of In Utero Conditions

Lavy, Victor - 2016

-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 24th 1991. Children in utero prior to immigration faced … that children exposed in an earlier stage of the pregnancy to better environmental conditions in utero have two decades …

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Within-Mother Estimates of the Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes in New York City

Currie, Janet - 2014

largest for first born children. We also find that women on WIC are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic conditions, and …

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The 9/11 Dust Cloud and Pregnancy Outcomes : A Reconsideration

Currie, Janet - 2014

The events of 9/11 released a million tons of toxic dust into lower Manhattan, an unparalleled environmental disaster. It is puzzling then that the literature has shown little effect of fetal exposure to the dust. However, inference is complicated by pre-existing differences between the affected...

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Weathering the Storm : Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2012

A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...

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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

Currie, Janet - 2011

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...

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