positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long … mothers, with Black mothers experiencing a greater reduction in magnitude, but smaller reductions as a percentage of the …

Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered … premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to … attributed to changes in the demographic composition of mothers. We next exploit county-level variation in the timing of these …

Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased …-income countries and may question the effectiveness of care. Using the 2007/08 Botswana Family Health Survey data collected by … Statistics Botswana, the paper jointly estimates the adequate prenatal care utilization (input demand) and infant birth weight …