suggestions for healthy behaviors during pregnancy. Receiving messages had an overall positive effect of 5 percent on the number …

during pregnancy. Moreover, those who did not use assisted reproductive technology present a higher prevalence of these … disappears for mothers in "education, training, and library" occupations, revealing that season of birth is a matter of choice … mothers who report to have chosen season of birth is 19% of financial wealth while for those who report not to have chosen it …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of maternal displacements during pregnancy on birth outcomes by leveraging … separation of pregnant single mothers leads to a decrease in birth weight (BW) by around 28 grams (-1% ca.) and an increase in … incidence of low BW for mothers in a marriage or stable union. We document more pronounced negative effects for single mothers …

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …

We examine the effects of local labor market conditions during early pregnancy on birth and later outcomes. Using a … the female labor market. However, we do not find a lasting effect of economic shocks during early pregnancy on severe …

Evidence of the relationship between temperature during pregnancy and human embryo mortality is limited. Most … importantly, the literature lacks causal estimations and studies on early pregnancy losses. Here, we estimate the impact of early … pregnancy temperature exposure on the clinically unobserved pregnancy loss rate. We use administrative data of clinically …

weight and gestation length among mothers who were pregnant during this period. In addition to the common notion that … prenatal care and a beneficial effect of reduced work attendance during pregnancy. Our results demonstrate that multiple …

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …

leave in Austria that strongly affected the share of mothers who work up to the 32nd week of pregnancy. I use administrative … during pregnancy on newborn health. In this paper, I exploit three sharp policy changes on the duration of paid parental … discontinuity framework to identify the effect of prenatal employment on their offspring. Maternal employment during pregnancy with …

mothersâ postcodes (zip codes) of residence during pregnancy, we examine whether prenatal exposure to PM2.5 is associated with … infant outcomes once we implement a fixed effects approach that accounts for time-invariant factors common to mothers. While …