Born on the First of July: An (Un)Natural Experiment in Birth Timing
By Joshua S. Gans, A. Leigh. 2009
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Subfields: General Health Professions, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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Citations in the corpus
- Are Children Really Inferior Goods?: Evidence from Displacement-Driven Income Shocks (2010, unknown): “19 4 0.”
- Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents (2015, unknown): “…timing is limited since the vast majority of births in Norway are spontaneous vaginal deliveries, we investigate this claim empirically.12 Following Gans and Leigh (2009), we run a regression where we relate the daily number of births to the reform (a dummy taking the value 1 for days after April…”
- The dismal science: how thinking like an economist undermines community (2010, background): “It is estimated that this ‘very significant disruption to normal operating procedures for maternity hospitals and staff’ affected about 1000 births in 2004 and 600 in 2006 (Gans and Leigh 2009 , p.”
- Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas (2019, unknown): “Several studies have shown that decisions of fertility and timing of birth can respond to financial incentives (Gans and Leigh, 2009; Tamm, 2013).”
- The Effect of Patient Cost Sharing on Utilization, Health, and Risk Protection (2014, background): “…365 day-ofbirth fixed effects as well as year-of-birth fixed effects into the equation (2), so as to account for seasonality and cohort size effects where age in days at the time of the outpatient visit or inpatient admission is the running variable (Gans and Leigh, 2009; Barreca et al., 2010).”
- Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes after Childbirth (2014, methodology): “Not included in the data are civil servants ðincluding teachersÞ and the self-employed.16 From this database, we select all West 15 Gans and Leigh ð2009Þ provide empirical evidence that women also have some possibilities of delaying childbirth.”