between infant health and maternal smoking. When state cigarette excise taxes are used as an instrument for tobacco use … without accounting for measurement error in self-reported smoking, the conventional IV estimate of the birth weight cost of … smoking is only slightly smaller in magnitude than its OLS counterpart for whites, but nearly a third of the average infant …

endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …

endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …

are concentrated among socioeconomically disadvantaged mothers, especially those that are unmarried. Results are also most … apparent for mothers of young children. Altogether, our results suggest that the increased work associated with EITC expansions … over time has done little to reduce the time mothers devote to active learning and development activities with their …

are concentrated among socioeconomically disadvantaged mothers, especially those that are unmarried. Results are also most … apparent for mothers of young children. Altogether, our results suggest that the increased work associated with EITC expansions … over time has done little to reduce the time mothers devote to active learning and development activities with their …