There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves … children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of …'s smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …

health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the … whether parental participation in such programs measurably benefits children. This paper begins to fill this gap in the … literature by examining the relationship between a mother's participation during pregnancy in Aid to Families with Dependent …

-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the … whether parental participation in such programs measurably benefits children. This paper begins to fill this gap in the … literature by examining the relationship between a mother's participation during pregnancy in Aid to Families with Dependent …

provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible …We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further …