women's intra-household bargaining power to their mortality risk. Using a structural model of households, I estimate the age … age, and that women's relative poverty rates closely match their higher than expected mortality rates by age. This match …

This paper presents an analysis of birth weights and infant mortality in mid-nineteenth century Philadelphia using … obstetrics records of Philadelphia's Almshouse hospital, an institution for the poor and their offspring. Children of the poor … birth weights were lower than modern standards the urban poor suffered from higher rates of infant mortality than today. But …

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …