depression reduces their children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill scores by 5 to 7% of a SD throughout adolescence. Our …

the child home environment and reduce stress has larger returns for children with higher socio-emotional skills in early … stressful home environment, an increase has a higher return for children with lower socio-emotional skills in early childhood …

the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are …

child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed …, exposed children had a lower level of development, cognition skills, and more attention problems relative to children not … trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …

perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the … treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to …

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health …

imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or postpartum depression. Instead, they are related to mothers' higher … investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …

cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The … intervention significantly improved maternal mental health, especially among mothers of boys. It resulted in imprecisely estimated … analysis of mechanisms reveals that the intervention modified the production function of children's skills, by lowering the …