children being born, reducing the rates of extremely preterm births and infant mortality. My most conservative estimates … suggest reductions of 1.1 extremely preterm births and 0.9 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, with the largest reduction in … deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This suggests that expanding contraceptive access could help close the infant …

birth on the need to use adequate Antenatal care for each pregnancy, since these mothers tend to use less antenatal care for … subsequent pregnancies. The regional disparities found may be due to inaccessibility and unavailability of health facilities and …

variation in contraceptive access to demonstrate that it reduced the rates of both extremely preterm births and infant mortality …This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates … suggesting that this program led to reductions of 2.5 extremely preterm births and 1.3 infant deaths per 1,000 live births across …

inductions can explain about one-third of the overall increase in birth weights for term births between 2010 and 2013. …Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered … infants born at term (39 or 40 weeks). Despite these known harms, we document a rise in early term births in the United States …