Table 1.

Birth Outcomes and Maternal/Paternal Characteristics

	(1) No assault/Inury/Crash	(2) Assault	(3) Unintentional Injury	(4) Car Crash
Birth outcomes
Birth weight (grams)	3364	3061	3253	3282
LBW	0.064	0.151	0.101	0.080
Fetal Death	0.006	0.022	0.005	0.004
Death within first year of life (includes fetal)	0.007	0.028	0.011	0.008
Pregnancy
Drug use	0.001	0.007	0.004	0.001
Tobacco	0.020	0.073	0.046	0.037
Bleeding	0.005	0.007	0.006	0.010
Maternal Characteristics
Teenage	0.12	0.23	0.13	0.16
Over 35 years old	0.10	0.06	0.10	0.08
<HS	0.34	0.44	0.31	0.28
HS	0.30	0.37	0.35	0.38
Some college	0.19	0.14	0.21	0.22
College	0.17	0.03	0.12	0.12
Medicaid	0.43	0.70	0.52	0.48
Black	0.08	0.41	0.19	0.17
White	0.91	0.58	0.81	0.82
Hispanic	0.53	0.36	0.39	0.43
Paternal Characteristics
Black	0.08	0.38	0.18	0.18
Hispanic	0.54	0.46	0.44	0.45
White	0.36	0.58	0.35	0.35
<HS	0.30	0.28	0.22	0.21
HS	0.30	0.38	0.38	0.38
Some college	0.16	0.10	0.15	0.17
College grad	0.17	0.03	0.12	0.13
Observations	5386662	1657	3709	5400

Note: drug use, tobacco and bleeding only indicated if a complicating factor in California.