implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … health of past populations therefore originated in part in the first days of life." …

over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … because they are the two most important sources of human capital: knowledge capital and health capital. There is a large …

analysis is unique for several reasons. First, we restrict the analysis to women on Medicaid and or WIC who have no previous … between WIC and non-WIC participants by limiting the sample to women who initiate prenatal care early and who have no …

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … behaviors, and babies' health Using national data from the Natality Files from 1975 onward, we find that babies conceived in … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

of child welfare and that these entitlement programs may well have positive impacts on the health and development of …

of low-birthweight births is the health outcome. Because we are able to control for the race-specific percentage of women …, family status, and employment. The paper presents an aggregate time-series analysis of unemployment and infant health that … proxy for maternal stress enters the production function as one among a set of well-defined health Inputs. Third, because a …

have related health problems in infancy and beyond. Despite these outcomes, many women still smoke during pregnancy. The …Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to have significant adverse health effects for new born babies. Smoking is the …

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … fertility rates. This implies that the well-documented cyclical nature of fertility rates is about access to liquidity. We also …

birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … favorably to policies that target maternal health, and could have a small, lasting effect on long-run outcomes …