Poverty, Violence, and Health: The Impact of Domestic Violence during Pregnancy on Newborn Health

Autor/in	Aizer, Anna
Titel	Poverty, Violence, and Health: The Impact of Domestic Violence during Pregnancy on Newborn Health
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 46 (2011) 3, S.518-538 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Family Violence; Pregnancy; Poverty; Body Weight; Infants; Child Health; Minority Groups; Educational Attainment; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schwangerschaft; Armut; Körpergewicht; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Ethnische Minderheit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Kalifornien
Abstract	Two percent of women in the United States suffer from intimate partner violence annually, with poor and minority women disproportionately affected. I provide evidence of an important negative externality associated with domestic violence by estimating a negative and causal relationship between violence during pregnancy and newborn health, exploiting variation in the enforcement of laws against domestic violence for identification. I find that hospitalization for an assault while pregnant reduces birth weight by 163 grams. This sheds new light on the infant health production process as well as observed income gradients in health given that poor mothers are disproportionately affected by violence. (Contains 6 tables, 2 figures and 14 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10