The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Krzysztof Karbownik

No 28116, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a difference-in-differences design to individual-level data on the population of births and fetal deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health.

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Date: 2020-11
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Published as Kamila Cygan-Rehm & Krzysztof Karbownik, 2022. "The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health," Journal of Health Economics, .

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