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Double trouble: the burden of child rearing and working on maternal mortality
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Farbmacher, Helmut; Guber, Raphael; … - 2020
We document increased old-age mortality rates among Swedish twin mothers compared to non-twin mothers. Results are … pension income shows the highest increase in mortality rates among highly educated mothers and those with above-median pension … income. These results are consistent with the existence of a double burden from child rearing and working on mothers’ health. …
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Short- and long-run effects of a sizable child subsidy : evidence from Russia
Sorvachev, Ilia; Jakovlev, Evgenij - 2020
This paper utilizes a large-scale natural experiment aimed at increasing fertility in Russia. Motivated by a decade-long decrease in fertility and population, the Russian government introduced a sequence of sizable child subsidies (called Maternity Capitals) in 2007 and 2012. We find that the...
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of … remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …
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Coverage of infertility treatment and fertility outcomes
Machado, Matilde P.; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 4, pp. 407-439
Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We examine short-term and long-term effects of increased...
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Returns to childbirth technologies : evidence from preterm births
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2013
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing
Donohue, John J. - 2010
After 41 consecutive years of increase, out-of-wedlock teen childbearing unexpectedly reversed course in 1991 and by 2002 was 20% below its peak. Explanations for that reversal have proven elusive. In this paper, we present evidence that exposure to legalized abortion in utero for the cohort of...
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Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China
Zhang, Xin - 2020
This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative birth record dataset in China. During the sample period...
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Universal Prekindergarten, Fertility, and Maternal Health : A Difference-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design with Extrapolations
Hong, Kai - 2019
study, I examine the effects of the New York City pre-K program on the health of low-income mothers, their healthcare … ranges indicate that the effects of universal pre-K on mothers are heterogeneous by children's date of birth …
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Air Pollution During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in Italy
Palma, Alessandro - 2019
disadvantaged mothers are more vulnerable. Given the non negligible effects of pollution on birth outcomes, further policy efforts …
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The Individual's Choice of Facility for Maternal Health and Family Planning Services in a Dense Urban Environment : The Case of Senegal
Cronin, Christopher - 2017
A number of authors have utilized health facility choice models to determine how individuals in developing countries evaluate the tradeoff between the price, quality, and indirect costs of obtaining medical care. A common problem in this literature is that researchers only observe the type of...
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