We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

significant effects on mothers’ hospitalizations or ED use after birth, or on subsequent fertility, but we find a ripple effect on …Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … use birth records from California, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented--but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented - but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented - but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …