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  1. The COVID-19 baby bump in the United States
  2. Inequality in mortality between Black and White Americans by age, place, and cause and in comparison to Europe, 1990 to 2018
  3. Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings †
  4. Is There a Link between Foreclosure and Health? †
  5. What Do We Know About Short- and Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollution?
  6. Early-Life Origins of Life-Cycle Well-Being: Research and Policy Implications
  7. Addressing antibiotic abuse in China: An experimental audit study
  8. Do stimulant medications improve educational and behavioral outcomes for children with ADHD?
  9. The 9/11 Dust Cloud and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Reconsideration
  10. Within-Mother Estimates of the Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes in New York City
  11. Social networks and externalities from gift exchange: Evidence from a field experiment
  12. What Do We Know About Short and Long Term Effects of Early Life Exposure to Pollution?
  13. Pregnancy Weight Gain and Childhood Body Weight: A Within-Family Comparison
  14. Pollution and Infant Health
  15. Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
  16. Something in the water: contaminated drinking water and infant health
  17. Do Stimulant Medications Improve Educational and Behavioral Outcomes for Children with ADHD?
  18. Weathering the storm: Hurricanes and birth outcomes
  19. Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making and Performance Among Physicians
  20. Something in the Water: Contaminated Drinking Water and Infant Health
  21. Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
  22. Antipoverty Programs for Poor Children and Families
  23. Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
  24. Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
  25. The Great Recession, Public Transfers, and Material Hardship
  26. From infant to mother: Early disease environment and future maternal health
  27. Weathering the Storm: Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes
  28. Accidental death and the rule of joint and several liability
  29. Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime
  30. Children with Disabilities: Introducing the Issue
  31. Introduction to “Early Test Scores, School Quality and Ses: Longrun Effects on Wage and Employment Outcomes”
  32. From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
  33. Patient knowledge and antibiotic abuse: Evidence from an audit study in China
  34. Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health?
  35. Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis
  36. Ungleichheiten bei der Geburt: Einige Ursachen und Folgen
  37. Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
  38. Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences
  39. Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
  40. Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences
  41. Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
  42. Human capital development before age five
  43. Public vs. private provision of charity care? Evidence from the expiration of Hill–Burton requirements in Florida
  44. Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
  45. Patient Knowledge and Antibiotic Abuse: Evidence from an Audit Study in China
  46. The association between pregnancy weight gain and birthweight: a within-family comparison
  47. The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain
  48. Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
  49. Human Capital Development Before Age Five
  50. Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from the Expiration of Hill-Burton Requirements in Florida
  51. Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes
  52. Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
  53. Does Pollution Increase School Absences?
  54. Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
  55. Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability
  56. Air pollution and infant health: Lessons from New Jersey
  57. Fetal Exposures to Toxic Releases and Infant Health
  58. The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain
  59. Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
  60. Has public health insurance for older children reduced disparities in access to care and health outcomes?
  61. Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes
  62. Does WIC Work? The Effects of WIC on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes
  63. The Changing Association between Prenatal Participation in WIC and Birth Outcomes in New York City: What Does it Mean?
  64. Fetal Exposure to Toxic Releases and Infant Health
  65. Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey
  66. Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?
  67. Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
  68. Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data
  69. First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes *
  70. Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data
  71. Does Managed Care Hurt Health? Evidence from Medicaid Mothers
  72. Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital
  73. Does Pollution Increase School Absences?
  74. Response to Besharov/Higney and Barnett
  75. How should we interpret the evidence about head start?
  76. Biology as Destiny? Short‐ and Long‐Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight
  77. Getting inside the “Black Box” of Head Start quality: What matters and what doesn’t
  78. Child mental health and human capital accumulation: The case of ADHD
  79. First Do No Harm?: Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes
  80. Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
  81. Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
  82. Chapter 20 Pre-School, Day Care, and After-School Care: Who's Minding the Kids?
  83. Biology as Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight
  84. Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?*
  85. Cutting the Safety Net, One Strand at a Time
  86. Health Disparities and Gaps in School Readiness
  87. Medicaid managed care: effects on children's Medicaid coverage and utilization
  88. The changing association between prenatal participation in WIC and birth outcomes in New York City: What does it mean?
  89. Networks or neighborhoods? Correlations in the use of publicly-funded maternity care in California
  90. Preschool, Day Care, and Afterschool Care: Who's Minding the Kids?
  91. Viewpoint: Child research comes of age
  92. Breakfast of Champions? The School Breakfast Program and the Nutrition of Children and Families
  93. Poverty, food insecurity, and nutritional outcomes in children and adults
  94. The Take Up of Social Benefits
  95. Hospitals, managed care, and the charity caseload in California
  96. Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD
  97. Competition in Imperfect Markets: Does it Help California's Medicaid Mothers?
  98. Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience
  99. Accidents will happen?
  100. Does WIC work? The effects of WIC on pregnancy and birth outcomes
  101. Socioeconomic Status and Child Health: Why Is the Relationship Stronger for Older Children?
  102. Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't?
  103. Distance to Hospital and Children's Use of Preventive Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?
  104. Heat or Eat? Cold-Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
  105. Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts
  106. WIC Eligibility and Participation
  107. Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data
  108. Networks or Neighborhoods? Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded Maternity Care in California
  109. Longer-Term Effects of Head Start
  110. Socioeconomic Status and Health: Why is the Relationship Stronger for Older Children?
  111. Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
  112. Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
  113. Medicaid expansions and welfare contractions: offsetting effects on prenatal care and infant health?
  114. Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children's Medicaid Coverage and Utilization
  115. Hospitals, Managed Care, and the Charity Caseload in California
  116. Public health insurance and medical treatment: the equalizing impact of the Medicaid expansions
  117. Early Childhood Education Programs
  118. Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Injury, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy
  119. Explaining Recent Declines in Food Stamp Program Participation
  120. Longer Term Effects of Head Start
  121. Youths at Nutritional Risk: Malnourished or Misnourished?
  122. Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions: Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?
  123. The Law and Labor Strife in the United States, 1881–1894
  124. The Law and Labor Strife in the United States, 1881–1894
  125. Chapter 19 Child health in developed countries
  126. School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start
  127. Are public housing projects good for kids?
  128. Does Head Start help hispanic children?
  129. Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers
  130. The Intergenerational Transmission of “Intelligence”: Down the Slippery Slopes of The Bell Curve
  131. Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Low Birthweight
  132. Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Low Birthweight
  133. Early Test Scores, Socioeconomic Status and Future Outcomes
  134. Chapter 50 Health, health insurance and the labor market
  135. Distance to Hospitals and Children's Access to Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?
  136. School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start
  137. Are Public Housing Projects Good for Kids?
  138. Sharing the Costs: The Impact of Trade Reform on Capital and Labor in Morocco
  139. The Technology of Birth: Health Insurance, Medical Interventions, and Infant Health
  140. Choosing among Alternative Programs for Poor Children
  141. Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Changes in the Medicaid Eligibility of Pregnant Women
  142. Does Head Start Help Hispanic Children?
  143. The Minimum Wage and the Employment of Youth Evidence from the NLSY
  144. Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Birth Weight and Pregnancy Resolutions
  145. Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?
  146. Socio-Economic Status and Child Health: Does Public Health Insurance Narrow the Gap?
  147. Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894: New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism
  148. Race, Children's Cognitive Achievement and The Bell Curve
  149. Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives. Toby L. Parcel Elizabeth G. Menaghan
  150. Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical care, and Child Health
  151. Medical Care for Children: Public Insurance, Private Insurance, and Racial Differences in Utilization
  152. Physician Payments and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Fee Policy
  153. The Impact of Collective-Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U. S. Public Sector: No Legislation May Be the Worst Legislation
  154. Understanding When Agents Are Fairmen or Gamesmen
  155. Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women
  156. Arbitrator Behavior and the Variances of Arbitrated and Negotiated Wage Settlements
  157. Welfare and the Well-Being of Children: The Relative Effectiveness of Cash and In-Kind Transfers
  158. Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Pregnancy Resolutions and Birth Weight
  159. Does Head Start Make a Difference?
  160. "The Minimum Wage and the Employment of Youth: Evidence from the NLSY"
  161. Medicaid and Medical Care for Children
  162. Gender Gaps in Benefits Coverage
  163. An Experimental Comparison of Dispute Rates in Alternative Arbitration Systems
  164. Male Jobs, Female Jobs, and Gender Gaps in Benefits Coverage
  165. Firm-Specific Determinants of the Real Wage
  166. Firm-Specific Determinants of the Real Wage
  167. Is Arbitration Addictive? Evidence From the Laboratory and the Field
  168. The Impact of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U.S. Public Sector: No Policy May Be the Worst Policy
  169. Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?
  170. Rules, Coordination and Manipulability Among Arbitrators
  171. Employment Determination in a Unionized Public-Sector Labor Market: The Case of Ontario's School Teachers
  172. An Experimental Comparison of Dispute Rates in Alternative Arbitration Systems
  173. Who Uses Interest Arbitration? The Case of British Columbia's Teachers, 1947-1981
  174. Are Public Housing Projects Good For Kids?
  175. child health and mortality
  176. Chapter 1. Health and Residential Location
  177. U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs
  178. nutrition and public policy in advanced economies
  179. Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts
  180. Collective Bargaining Contracts in the Canadian Public Sector, 1964-1987
  181. Collective Bargaining Contracts in the Canadian Public Sector, 1964-1987
  182. Youths at Nutrition Risk
  183. Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital
  184. Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
  185. Early test scores, school quality and SES: Longrun effects on wage and employment outcomes
  186. Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings