Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased … Statistics Botswana, the paper jointly estimates the adequate prenatal care utilization (input demand) and infant birth weight … reduces the likelihood to both adequately utilize prenatal care and report infant birth weight. The likelihood for prenatal …

bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county … in terms of reducing smoking inside the home - an effect which may further explain the improvement in infant and children … sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of …

We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference … health. MMLs had no significant effect on maternal substance use disorder hospitalizations nor on newborn health and fairly …

sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant … associated with approximately a 3 percent increase in smoking and a small increase in pregnancy weight gain for most of the …

: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases … may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce …