Does the Delivery of Primary Health Care Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the Rollout of Community Health Centers

We thank Marianne Bitler, Liz Cascio, Eric Chyn, Janet Currie, Jason Lindo, Doug Miller, Marianne Page and Lucie Schmidt for their helpful feedback as well as seminar and session participants at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Southern Economic Association Meetings, University of South Carolina, Columbia Women’s Applied Micro seminar, Dickinson College, Carolina Regional Empirical Economics Day, Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Conference, and the Global Labor Organization virtual seminar. This research was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01HD0938898. The findings, conclusions, views, and opinions are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Institutes of Health. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• May 11, 2022