gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health … adverse birth outcomes and pregnancy-related complications. I find impacts on the extensive and intensive margins and across …

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides … consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn health. We use two approaches to examine this question. First, we …, led to significant terror and disruptions in daily life over a three-week period. We compare birth outcomes of children …

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 …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the … sufficient iron supplementation respectively has been taken from Indian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2005-6. To estimate … into individual characteristics of the woman, household characteristics, health-related characteristics, community …

during pregnancy. Moreover, those who did not use assisted reproductive technology present a higher prevalence of these … better health at birth even conditional on the observable maternal characteristics which predict selection. …

pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …, understanding the relationship between temperature and pregnancy-related outcomes is far from perfect. Importantly, the potential …