antenatal care. We study the impacts of one such program, a multi-faceted cash-transfer program on maternal health-seeking and … birth outcomes. Ecuador’s Desnutrition Cero program sought to create incentives for care-seeking through cash transfers … care seeking, trained or facility-based delivery care, or birth outcomes. There is suggestive evidence that mothers …

-run improvements in physical health and economic outcomes for Black mothers. Despite fade-out of short-run effects of the EITC …While the correlation between income and health has been well established, the causal relationship is not well … understood. This research estimates long-run effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on outcomes for low-income mothers in …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across …

adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an … adulthood. The affected children were 12 p.p. more likely not to be in education, employment, or training (NEET) at the age of …

investments in children's health and improving the prenatal environment …This paper examines how cash transfers that are not conditional on employment affect infant health. Leveraging … resources increased prenatal care and improved maternal health in ways that are consistent with families both increasing …