positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long … mothers, with Black mothers experiencing a greater reduction in magnitude, but smaller reductions as a percentage of the …

market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children … births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor …