estimator to identify the impact of smoking on babies of teen and non-teen mothers. We find that both OLS and matching estimator …In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also … substantial evidence that smoking is a risk factor correlated with low birth weight. Low birth weight is a costly outcome in both …

/quit smoking. We use cross-sectional and panel data models to find that e-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws increase underage … pregnant teenagers' smoking by 2.1 percentage points. The laws may have also modestly improved select birth outcomes, perhaps … by reducing overall nicotine exposure from vaping and smoking combined …

We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults …

women during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine the effects of these policy changes on smoking, weight gain and other … associated with approximately a 3 percent increase in smoking and a small increase in pregnancy weight gain for most of the … sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …