framework is to estimate the infant health production function from a behavioral model in which health inputs are themselves … 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 …

remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of … birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from …

suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the … implications of the Lanham Act for children's long-run outcomes related to educational attainment, family formation, and labor …

Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However …