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Ramadan fasting, sex-ratio at birth, and birth weight : no effects on Muslim infants born in Germany

Jürges, Hendrik - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 13-16

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Worth the wait? : the effect of early term birth on maternal and infant health

Buckles, Kasey; Guldi, Melanie - 2016

Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to infants born at term (39 or 40 weeks). Despite these known...

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Transitory shocks and birth weights : evidence from a blackout in Zanzibar

Burlando, Alfredo - In: Journal of development economics 108 (2014), pp. 154-168

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What a difference a day makes : quantifying the effects of birth timing manipulation on infant health

Schulkind, Lisa; Shapiro, Teny Maghakian - In: Journal of health economics 33 (2014), pp. 139-158

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Inside the War on Poverty : The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

Almond, Douglas - 2010

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP...

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Maternal age and infant health

Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Patiño, David - 2021

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Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies – augmented with a … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement …

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Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056859

Birth Weight and Infant Health for Multiple Births

Saavedra, Martin Hugo - 2018

I provide plausibly causal estimates of the effect of birth weight using data from the universe of twins, triplets, and quadruplets born between 1995-2000 in the United States. Infants from higher-order multiple births have lower birth weights, but experience smaller reductions in infant health...

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How do hospitals respond to managed care? : evidence from at-risk newborns

Lee, Ajin - In: Journal of public economics 184 (2020), pp. 1-39

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