Health at birth is an important predictor of long-term outcomes, including education, income,
and disability. Recent evidence suggests that maternal disadvantage leads to worse health …

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That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established.
Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to …

What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health
consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more
than a century. Most studies find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is …

We estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between
1931 and 2010. We find that days with a mean temperature above 80 F cause a large …

Mounting evidence across different disciplines suggests that early‐life conditions can have
consequences on individual outcomes throughout the life cycle. Relative to other developed …

We study how exposure to extreme temperatures in early periods of child development is
related to adult economic outcomes measured 30 y later. Our analysis uses administrative …

The relationships between meteorology and pregnancy outcomes are not well known. This
article reviews available evidence on the relationships between seasonality or meteorology …

The epidemiologic study of pregnancy and birth outcomes may be hindered by several
unique and challenging issues. Pregnancy is a time-limited period in which severe cohort …