Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who 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 … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a … racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income …