Nancy E. Reichman, PhD

Reichman is a health economist with a broad portfolio of grant-funded research focusing on linkages between socioeconomic status and health, including studies of determinants of infant and child health, effects of child health on family resources, sources of health disparities, and effects of public policies and other contexts on child and family well-being. Recent achievements and noteworthy roles include:

• PI (with Julien Teitler, Ph.D. and Daniel Notterman, MD) on “Fragile Families: The Third Generation,” the NICHD-funded study of the third generation of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing birth cohort study.
• Recipient of the inaugural Chancellor Distinguished Health Sciences Investigator Award, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences, Rutgers University (October 2020).
• Elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research in recognition of research achievements (November 2020).
• Co-lead on the Team Science Core of the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science.
• Steering Committee Member, The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study.

Maternal and Child Health, Health Disparities, Socioeconomic Status and Health Across the Life Course, Economics of the Family

Much of Reichman’s recent and current research has focused on:

• Gestational age and the sharp rises in non-medically necessary caesarian section deliveries over recent decades in the U.S., factors underlying those trends, the role of elective deliveries in shaping the autism epidemic, and the effects of elective deliveries on neonatal morbidities and child development more generally.
• Maternal reproductive health, including determinants (e.g., municipal spending, housing costs, discriminatory police violence) and consequences (e.g., income, material hardship) of severe maternal morbidity and maternal perinatal depression.
• Effects of welfare reform on health and economic outcomes of the next generation in adolescence and adulthood.
• Cardiovascular health in the U.S.: disparities, trends, age patterning, and international comparisons.
• Paternal depression and child development.
• Child disability and developmental and family outcomes.

• Schmitz, K., Noonan, K., Corman, H., Nguyen, J., Jimenez, M., Reichman, N. (2025). Paternal Depression at Kindergarten Entry and Teacher-Reported Behavior at Age 9. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. S0749-3797(25)00029–7. In press.
• Casseus, M., Reichman, N. (2025). Trends and Patterns in U.S. Pediatric Care Coordination, 2016-2022. The Journal of Pediatrics 279:114457.
• Muchomba, F., Teitler, J., Fox, C., Reichman, N. (2025). Racialized Police Use of Force and Maternal Reproductive Health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 68(3): 535–544.
• Gigliotti, R., Weidner, M., Jansen, M., Greenberg, P., Bachmann, G., Dominguez-Bello, M., Parmar, V., Panettieri, R., Reilly, N., Ayers, C., Cohen, B., Denzin, L., Feldman, C., Fiedler, N., Jiménez, M., Laumbach, R., Malin, S., Mazzaferro, N., Pai, S., Rosen, T., Rossman-Murphy, L., Salvatore, J., Schmitz, K., Shapses, S., Shiau, S., Zarbl, H., Reichman, N., Barrett, E., Blaser, M., Horton, D. (2024) Assessments of Working Group Effectiveness in the Planning of the New Jersey Kids Study: An Applied Mixed-Methods Study on the Science of Team Science.  Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 8(1): e163.
• Sabu, S., Corman, H., Noonan, K., Reichman, N., Kuhn, K. Radovick, S. (2024). Small-for-Gestational-Age and Age at Menarche. PLoS ONE 19(9): e0309363.
• Casseus, M., Cheng, J., Reichman, N. (2024). Clinical and Functional Characteristics of Children and Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy and Co-Occurring Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities 151: 104787.
• Schmitz, K., Jiménez, M., Corman, H., Noonan, K., Reichman, N. (2024). Paternal Depression in the Postpartum Year and Children’s Behaviors at Age 5 in an Urban U.S. Birth Cohort. PLoS ONE 19(4): e0300018.
• James, C., Corman, H., Noonan, K., Reichman, N., Jiménez, J. (2024). Chronic Health Conditions and Adolescents’ Social Connectedness. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 94(3): 235–245.
• Muchomba, F., Teitler, J., Reichman, N. (2024). Municipal Social Expenditures and Maternal Health Disparities: A Study of Linked Birth and Hospitalisation Records. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 78(2): 69–74.
• Duh-Leong, C., Canfield, C., Fuller, A., Gross, R., Reichman, N. (2024). Early Childcare Precarity and Subsequent Maternal Health. Women’s Health Issues 34(2): 115–124. Editor's Choice article for March/April 2024 issue.
• Kalil, A., Corman, H., Dave, D., Schwartz-Soicher, O., Reichman N. (2023). Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children’s Home Environments. Demography 60(6): 1791–1813.
• Reichman, N., Corman, H., Noonan, K., Kuhn, K., Papas, E., Hegyi, T. (2023). Small-for-Gestational-Age and Vocabulary and Achievement Test Scores at Age 9 Among Children Born at Term in a Contemporary U.S. Sample. Maternal and Child Health Journal 27: 2156–2164.  
• Rokicki, S., Reichman, N., McGovern, M. (2023). Association of Raising the Minimum Wage in the US with Experiences of Maternal Stressful Life Events. JAMA Network Open 6(7): e2324018.
• McGovern, M., Rokicki, S., von Jaglinsky, A., Reichman, N. (2023). Neighborhood-Level Housing Affordability and Maternal Depression. SSM—Mental Health 3: 100192.
• Chegwin, V., Teitler, J., Muchomba, F., Reichman, N. (2023). Racialized Police Use of Force and Birth Outcomes. Social Science & Medicine 321:115767.
• Reichman, N., Corman, H., Dave, D., Kalil, A., Schwartz-Soicher, O. (2023). Effects of Welfare Reform on Positive Health and Social Behaviors of Adolescents. Special issue on “Economic Resources and the Development of Children and Adolescents,” edited by Mary Clare Lennon and Ludovica Gambaro. Children 10(2): 260.
• Teitler, J., Chegwin, V., Li, L., Liu, K., Bearman, P., Gorney-Daley, M., Reichman, N. (2023). Trends in Elective Deliveries in California and New Jersey. AJPM Focus 2(1): 100052.
• Hegyi, T., Schwartz-Soicher, O., Reichman, N., Ostfeld, B. (2023). Racial Differences in the Impact of Maternal Smoking on Sudden Unexpected Infant Death. Journal of Perinatology 43(3): 345–349.
• Muchomba, F., Teitler, J., Reichman, N. (2022). Housing Affordability and Severe Maternal Morbidity. JAMA Network Open 5(11): e2243225.
• Lingasubramanian, G., Corman, H., Noonan, K., Reichman, N. (2022). Gestational Age at Term and Teacher-Reported ADHD Symptom Patterns. The Journal of Pediatrics 251: 120–126.
• McGovern, M., Rokicki, S., Reichman N. (2022). Maternal Depression and Economic Well-being: A Longitudinal Approach. Social Science & Medicine 305: 115017.
• Liu, K., Teitler, J., Rajananda, S., Chegwin, V., Bearman, P., Hegyi, T., Reichman, N. (2022). Elective Deliveries and the Risk of Autism. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 63(1): 68–76.
• Martinson, M., Teitler, J., Lapham, J., Ercin-Swearinger, H., Reichman, N. (2022). Generational Shifts in Young Adult Cardiovascular Health? Millennials and Generation X in the United States and England. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77(S2): S177–S188.
• Corman, H., Dave, D., Schwartz-Soicher, O., Reichman, N. (2022). Effects of Welfare Reform on Food Insecurity Across Generations. Economics and Human Biology 45: 101101.
• Rokicki, S., McGovern, M., Von Jaglinsky, A., Reichman, N. (2022). Depression in the Postpartum Year and Life Course Economic Trajectories. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 62(2): 165–173. 
• James, C., Corman, H., Noonan, K., Reichman, N., Jiménez, M. (2022). Adolescent Chronic Health Conditions and School Disconnectedness. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 43(2): 87–95.