We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across counties with different application rates under IRCA's large …

presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes, using unique linked … crimes, and focus on mothers who lived in a home where an assault was reported during their pregnancies. We compare these … mothers to women who lived in a home with an assault that took place shortly after the birth.We find that assaults in the 3rd …

Improving maternal and child health outcomes is a major development objective. Targets related to these outcomes were … Sustainable Development Goals (under Goal 3 health targets). Turkey is among the few successful middle-income countries that have … significantly reduced the under-5 mortality rate below the MDG 2015 target levels. This study analyses improved demand-side (health …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a …

in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …. Racial disparities swamp these income disparities, with no racial convergence in health outcomes as income rises. A … comparison with Sweden shows that infant and maternal health is worse in California at virtually all income levels. …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal … endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal … endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational …

childcare availability leads to mothers worrying more about their children's health. While early childcare expansions offer well … percentage point increase in the availability of childcare decreases mothers' self-assessed health by 0.173 points on a one to … is the transmission of infections from children to mothers. Consistent with this hypothesis, we observe that increased …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … 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 …