Violence while in Utero: The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

We thank seminar and conference participants at the University of Michigan, University of Arizona, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Gothenburg, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Stockholm University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, the NBER Summer Institute, the Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime, the America Latina Crime and Policy Network (ALCAPONE) Annual Meeting, and the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies for helpful comments. We are grateful to Ingrid Gould Ellen and the staff at the NYU Furman Center for assisting in assembling the data for this project, Sara Shoener of the NYC Commission on Gender Equity for background information on domestic violence in New York City, and Abigail Lebovitz for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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