This paper examines the effects of high school curriculum reforms on infant health by exploiting sharp and staggered … small and generally insignificant. Improvements in maternal health behaviors and family income appear to explain a non …-negligible fraction of the observed effects. Finally, we calculate a large social gain induced by favorable infant health outcomes …

premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

creates positive selection in the health of the cohorts of children being born. I exploit the staggered timing of three … potential to reduce adverse infant health outcomes and could decrease the infant mortality gap which exists between the US and …

expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women creates positive selection in the health of the … children being born, reducing the rates of extremely preterm births and infant mortality. My most conservative estimates …

Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance … (before the age of two). -- Health Insurance ; Child Health ; Mutuelles de Santé ; Rwanda … number of stand-alone community based health insurance schemes and gradually evolved into a unified social health insurance …