Arbeitspapier
Maternal Displacements during Pregnancy and the Health of Newborns
In this paper, we estimate the effect of maternal displacements during pregnancy on birth outcomes by leveraging population-level administrative data from Brazil on formal employment linked to birth records. We find that involuntary job separation of pregnant single mothers leads to a decrease in birth weight (BW) by around 28 grams (-1% ca.) and an increase in the incidence of low BW by 10.5%. In contrast, we find a significant positive effect on the mean BW and a decrease in the incidence of low BW for mothers in a marriage or stable union. We document more pronounced negative effects for single mothers with lower earnings and no effect for mothers in the highest income quartile, suggesting a mitigating role of self-insurance from savings. Exploiting variation from unemployment benefits eligibility, we also provide evidence on the mitigating role of formal unemployment insurance using a Regression Discontinuity design exploiting the cutoff from the unemployment insurance eligibility rule.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15155
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Health: General
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
- Thema
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dismissals
birth outcomes
informal insurance
unemployment insurance
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cellini, Stefano
Menezes, Livia
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Cellini, Stefano
- Menezes, Livia
- Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022