This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …

We assess the impact of fully paid maternity leave on maternal health in the year after birth. We exploit a sudden … utilization by mothers allow for comprehensive measurement of changes in both direct health outcomes and utilization. Our main … additionally provide evidence that expanding leave reduced mothers' pain and health care utilization, however, these results are …

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and … to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We … study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …-sections. In contrast to concerns voiced in the public discourse, the effects on a range of maternal and infant health outcomes are …

variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …

variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …