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Maybe next month? : temperature shocks, climate change, and dynamic adjustments in birth rates

Barreca, Alan I.; Deschênes, Olivier; Guldi, Melanie - 2015

not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

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Prenatal Care and Birth Weight in the United States

Feng, Weiwei - 2008

effects of endogenous inputs, such as prenatal care, maternal age, and fertility, on birth weight are investigated. I …, maternal age, and fertility. I find that OLS underestimates the gains to prenatal care by a factor of 9.4 for blacks, about 3 …

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Policy Perspectives : Understanding U.S. Births and Abortions with Google Trends

Scott, Brad - 2023

This study investigates the relationship between abstinence-only education and various reproductive health outcomes using descriptive statistics and Poisson regression models, while incorporating Google search data to capture the unknown factors associated with people's information-seeking...

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Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers

Jena, Anupam B.; Slusky, David; Springer, Lilly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Training to become a physician involves long work hours that can be physically demanding, particularly for surgeons. Are birth outcomes of physician mothers affected as a result? Using Texas birth data from 2007-2014, we compared birth outcomes between physicians and another highly educated...

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Positively aware? : conflicting expert reviews and demand for medical treatment

Balat, Jorge F.; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Qayyum, Shaiza - 2017

We study the impact of expert reviews on the demand for HIV treatments. A novel feature of our study is that we observe two reviews for each HIV drug and focus attention on consumer responses when experts disagree. Reviews are provided by both a doctor and an activist in the HIV lifestyle...

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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2009

Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income...

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Gender and the influence of peer alcohol consumption on adolescent sexual activity

Waddell, Glen R. - 2010

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship is robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained...

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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011

This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....

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Gender and the influence of peer alcohol consumption on adolescent sexual activity

Waddell, Glen R. - 2010

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