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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health

Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …

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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health

Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

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Health care in crisis : hospitals, nurses, and the consequences of policy change

Morris, Theresa - 2018

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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine … heterogeneity across counties. Using data from Vital Statistics birth certificate records from 2005-2018 from rural counties in the …

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Health Care Centralization : The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US

Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 rural counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead to...

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