Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.