We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further …

recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …