This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … expansions reduced the proportion of pregnant women who were uninsured by approximately 10 percent, although this decrease in …

Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) on the incidence of single motherhood and headship for young women. A contribution of the …

, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to … reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key human capital decisions, women in modern cohorts underestimate the … employment effects of motherhood in U.K. and U.S. data. We then provide evidence that women do not anticipate these effects. Upon …

Millions of women continue to die during and soon after childbirth, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid … this are available. We posit that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the timing of … of young women of about 0.5 years. The results are robust to numerous robustness checks. They suggest a new policy tool …

evaluating a low-cost intervention that aims to raise verbal engagement with infants by showing recent or expectant mothers a 3 …-minute informational video and giving them a themed wall calendar. Six to eight months later, mothers selected for the … to expectant mothers through existing health clinics at very low marginal cost so could be a highly cost-effective early …