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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women
Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as reproductive health centers across the country temporarily closed...
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Marijuana Liberalization Policies and Perinatal Health
Meinhofer, Angelica; Witman, Allison E.; Hinde, Jesse M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference-in-differences estimator that exploited variation in effective dates of medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana laws (RML). We found that the proportion of maternal...
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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes
Markowitz, Sara - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.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...
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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes
Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings...
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The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
adverse birth outcomes and pregnancy-related complications. I find impacts on the extensive and intensive margins and across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462732
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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants
Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
infants. Exposure to the beltway sniper attacks during pregnancy increased the likelihood of very low birthweight and very …
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The Effect of a Peer's Teen Pregnancy on Sexual Behavior
Anand, Priyanka; Kahn, Lisa B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In this paper, we examine whether a friend or older sibling's teen pregnancy impacts one's own sexual behavior. We … sharp timing of the end of a peer's pregnancy to analyze the evolution of sexual behavior. We find that those who observe a … peer's teen pregnancy change their sexual behavior after the event to put themselves at lower risk of their own teen …
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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The impact of the pandemic on the employment, labor supply, and caregiving of women is assessed. Compared with previous recessions, that induced by COVID-19 impacted women's employment and labor force participation more relative to men. But the big divide was less between men and women than it...
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The Long Road to the Fast Track : Career and Family
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004
The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct cohorts.' Each cohort made choices concerning career and family subject to different constraints. The first cohort, graduating college from the beginning of the twentieth century...
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The Most Egalitarian of All Professions : Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2012
Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low earnings dispersion relative to other occupations. We sketch a labor market framework based on the theory of equalizing differences to integrate and interpret our empirical...
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