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effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …
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Using data on over 420,000 first time Dutch mothers, we examine the effects of postpartum antidepressant use on a wide …
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We conducted a large-scale field experiment to calibrate phone messaging to its potential of overcoming behavioral barriers to maternal care uptake in the countryside of a developing country, where a significant share of women forgoes life-saving maternity-related care even when within reach....
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This paper specifies and estimates an econometric model of low and very low birthweight rates for counties in the U.S. for the years 1975-1984. We focus on the impact of several specific public policy actions on use of prenatal care and the subsequent effect on birthweight outcomes. Our results...
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. Our findings reveal significant gender disparities, with girls exposed in utero demonstrating substantially worse …
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are achieved at zero financial cost. Survey evidence suggests that these single-sex effects reflect both direct gender …
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This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a … teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … gender identity formation, has so far been overlooked. Accordingly, our key theoretical innovation is how the utility …
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We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure);...
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We investigate whether local average treatment effects (LATE's) can be extrapolated to new settings. We extend the analysis and framework of Dehejia, Pop-Eleches, and Samii (2015), which examines the external validity of the Angrist-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two...
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Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...
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