aggregate labor market conditions and birth outcomes is mitigated by the consumption smoothing income assistance delivered … directly tests the prediction of opposite-signed income and intertemporal substitution effects of business cycles by examining … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results …

Building on prior evidence that mothers often have a stronger preference for spending on children than fathers do, we … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the … improve child anthropometrics. One exception is that the communication training increases women's and children's intake of …

are mainly observed in children born to mothers with low socioeconomic status, suggesting that credit constraints may be a …

remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …

pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families … receiving several thousand dollars. We exploit this plausibly exogenous variation in income to obtain estimates of the effect … income on infant health. We measure the total amount of pandemic payments received during pregnancy, or the year before birth …