TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Poverty, Violence and Health: The Impact of Domestic Violence During Pregnancy on Newborn Health
JO  - Journal of human resources
A1  - Aizer, Anna
SP  - 518
EP  - 538
VL  - 46
IS  - 3
N2  - Two percent of women in the US 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-166X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhr.2011.0024
ID  - ref1
ER  -