Objectives Regression discontinuity (RD) designs allow for rigorous causal inference when
patients receive a treatment based on scoring above or below a cutoff point on a …

Background Despite extensive knowledge on the functional, neurodevelopmental,
behavioural and educational sequelae of preterm birth, relatively little is known about its …

Companies have recently begun to sell a new service to patients considering in vitro
fertilization: embryo selection based on polygenic scores (ESPS). These scores represent …

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 …

Importance The relationship between income and life expectancy is well established but
remains poorly understood. Objectives To measure the level, time trend, and geographic …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

When patients receive an intervention based on whether they score below or above some
threshold value on a continuously measured random variable, the intervention will be …

In this study, we evaluate how an expansion of Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and
infants affected the adult outcomes of individuals who gained access to coverage in utero …

We reconsider the effect of very low birth weight classification on infant mortality. We
demonstrate that the estimates are highly sensitive to the exclusion of observations in the …

This paper studies the effect of improved early life health care on mortality and long-run
academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules …