TY - JOUR
T1 - VIOLENCE WHILE IN UTERO
T2 - THE IMPACT OF ASSAULTS DURING PREGNANCY ON BIRTH OUTCOMES
AU - Currie, Janet
AU - Mueller-Smith, Michael
AU - Rossin-Slater, Maya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2022/5/9
Y1 - 2022/5/9
N2 - We study the effects of prenatal exposure to violent crime on infant health, using New York City crime records linked to mothers’ addresses in birth records data. We address endogeneity of assault exposure with three strategies and find that in utero assault exposure significantly increases the incidence of adverse birth outcomes. We calculate that the annual social cost of assault during pregnancy in the United States is more than $3.8 billion. Since infant health predicts long-term wellbeing and disadvantaged women are disproportionately likely to be domestic abuse victims, violence in utero may be an important channel for intergenerational transmission of inequality.
AB - We study the effects of prenatal exposure to violent crime on infant health, using New York City crime records linked to mothers’ addresses in birth records data. We address endogeneity of assault exposure with three strategies and find that in utero assault exposure significantly increases the incidence of adverse birth outcomes. We calculate that the annual social cost of assault during pregnancy in the United States is more than $3.8 billion. Since infant health predicts long-term wellbeing and disadvantaged women are disproportionately likely to be domestic abuse victims, violence in utero may be an important channel for intergenerational transmission of inequality.
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U2 - 10.1162/rest_a_00965
DO - 10.1162/rest_a_00965
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85132627474
SN - 0034-6535
VL - 104
SP - 525
EP - 540
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
IS - 3
ER -