facing physicians …

estimate the effect of the reversal of such a medical study on physician choices and infant health outcomes. Using the United … disadvantaged groups. However, we do not find that such a change in practice had significant impacts on infant health. Contrary to … prior studies, we find that physicians updated their beliefs quickly, and do indeed adjust to new medical research …

.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 maternal health behaviors, birth weight and gestation weeks. We find … little difference in maternal health behaviors associated with state-level EITC. In contrast, results for key infant health …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across counties with different application rates under IRCA's large …

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of … birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …

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 …

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 …

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides … consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn health. We use two approaches to examine this question. First, we … exposed. Second, we investigate the impact of in-utero exposure to mass shootings on infant health outcomes using restricted …

Reforms to the Joint and Several Liability rule (JSL) are one of the most common tort reforms and have been implemented …