TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bütikofer, Aline
AU  - Coy, Deirdre
AU  - Doyle, Orla
AU  - Ginja, Rita
        TI  - The Consequences of Miscarriage on Parental Investments
        PY  - 2024/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16858
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16858
        AB  - Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy loss improves maternal health investments in the subsequent pregnancy regarding supplement use, smoking, preventative healthcare, and physician choice. While a miscarriage negatively affects labor market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next pregnancy may offset the negative consequences of stress associated with pregnancy loss.
        KW  - miscarriage
KW  - parental investment
KW  - healthcare use
KW  - household labor supply
        ER  -