Table 5.

Effects of Hurricanes in Last Month of Delivery And Controlling for Method of Delivery

	Any Abnormal Conditions of Newborn (1996–2004)	Any Complications of Labor/Delivery (1996–2004)	Any Abnormal Conditions of Newborn (1996–2004)	Any Complications of Labor/Delivery (1996–2004)
A. IV with Mother Fixed Effects, Full Term Gestation Exposure Instrument
Hurricane within 30km, Last Month of Pregnancy	0.0379 (0.0316)	0.0304 (0.0447)
Hurricane 1st Trimester			0.0364** (0.0137)	0.0231 (0.0191)
Hurricane 2nd Trimester			0.0134 (0.0142)	0.0212 (0.0192)
Hurricane 3rd Trimester			0.0390** (0.0147)	0.0415** (0.0191)
Labor was Induced			0.0001 (0.0015)	0.0251*** (0.0023)
C-Section Delivery			0.0263*** (0.0026)	0.2829*** (0.0043)
N	301,683	301,683	301,683	301,683

Notes: Each column is a separate regression. See notes under Tables 1 and 4 for information about the sample, the storms and hurricanes, and the estimation methods and controls. For each outcome, births by mothers who have at most one child with non-missing data for that outcome are omitted. All regressions include controls for mother’s age, education, marital status, and child’s birth order, and conception year and conception month fixed effects, and an indicator for living within 30km of an area that was ever affected by a storm or hurricane over the time period of analysis. Robust standard errors are clustered on the mother.

Significance levels:

⁺ p<0.10

^**p<0.05

^***p<0.001