While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …

.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 …

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 …, led to significant terror and disruptions in daily life over a three-week period. We compare birth outcomes of children …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a …

remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …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 …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food … Americans, with larger impacts for births to African American 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 …

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989 …-2006, we find prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length …, suggesting that avoiding Ramadan exposure during pregnancy is costly or the long-term effects of fasting unknown …

We examine the impact of three "criteria" air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by combining … large sample size, our work offers three important innovations: First, because we know the exact addresses of mothers, we … select those mothers closest to air monitors to ensure a more accurate measure of air quality. Second, since we follow …

We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement …-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and characterization of infant health. The TUVs represent wantedness, taste for risky … behavior, and maternal health endowment. The NSCs include father and family structure characteristics. We estimate effects of …