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 …

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 … the year after birth, to study the causal health effects of cesarean delivery for low-risk first births. Building on …

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 …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … the likelihood that children drop out of high school, focusing on blacks and Hispanics. Instrumental variables estimates … and child outcomes for blacks and Hispanics, at least for the children of women whose marriage decisions are most affected …

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 …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing …

that promote child health. This study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey - Birth Cohort to explore the causal … effect of breastfeeding on development across the early years of childhood. We examine a range of health, physical, and … health at 9 months. Furthermore, they are protective against obesity and improve cognitive outcomes at 24 months and 54 …

benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … of days with poor mental health and the fraction reporting excellent or very good health improved relative to the mothers …

Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this … association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …