This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … selection of mothers choosing to give birth or due to behavioral changes. We study the relationship between the unemployment … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers …

with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …Because breastfeeding protects against water- and food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health … birth order and ideal family size. Our results suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented--but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

significant effects on mothers' hospitalizations or ED use after birth, or on subsequent fertility, but we find a ripple effect on …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 …

We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health … grandmother fixed effects. The significant role of both maternal and paternal health at birth in explaining offspring health at … at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child …

Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the … pregnancy to term, but that they have no direct effect on birth weight. In contrast, community-level measures of the … availability of abortion, contraception, and prenatal care do affect birth weight among African-Americans but not among whites …

Michael Grossman's seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …

birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of …This paper investigates the impact of mothers' earnings on birth weight and gestational age of infants. It also … newborns of high-skill mothers (those with at least some college education). Variations in earnings have no impact on birth …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death …-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low …