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The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2022

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...

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The influence of child care on maternal health and mother-child interaction

Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2013

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not …. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data …

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Home with mom : the effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes

Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - 2013

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...

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Birthweight and academic achievement in childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014

Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...

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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

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Relationship between maternal behavior during pregnancy, birth outcome, and early childhood development : an exploratory study

Li, Kai; Poirier, Dale J. - 2003

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child … childhood developmental outcomes, and only maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy have some effects on child height. Not … surprisingly, family child-rearing environment has sizeable negative and positive effects on behavioral problems index and math …

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Childhood obesity and maternal education in Ireland

Madden, David - 2016

This paper analyses the socioeconomic gradient of chilidhood obesity in Ireland using the Growing Up in Ireland data with three innovations compared to previous work in the area. A different measure of socioeconomic status, maternal education, is employed. In addition, the depth and severity of...

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Maternal employment, childcare and childhood overweight during infancy

McDonnell, Thérèse; Doyle, Orla - 2014

due to item non-response. The results suggest that both full-time and part-time maternal employment when a child is 9 … education. Informal childcare at 9 months also has harmful effects on child weight, but again only for children of more educated …

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Maternal postpartum depression effects on child's health

Schiavon, Lucia - 2021

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The role of maternal postpartum depression on newbor and siblings' behaviour

Schiavon, Lucia - 2021

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