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Occupational licensing is intended to protect consumers. Whether it does so is an important, but unanswered, question. Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details of midwifery laws introduced during the period 1900-1940, and using a rich data set that we...
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-in-differences design. We find that closures lead mothers to experience a significant change in birth procedures such as inductions and C …
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We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death … to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non … birth weight and preterm birth than those in the bottom ventile. However, unlike birth outcomes, infant mortality varies …
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in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …We use linked administrative data on the universe of California births to provide novel evidence on economic inequality … outcomes than their lowest-income counterparts, but are nevertheless the least likely to die in the year following birth …
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that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations (NGOs) if they offer abortion-related information or services …
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In the past 15 years, four-year-olds' enrollment in state-funded pre-kindergarten in the United States has doubled, and …
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