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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …
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. Using a population database of births in Northern Ireland linked to localised geographic information on pollution in mothers …' postcodes (zip codes) of residence during pregnancy, we examine whether prenatal exposure to PM2.5 is associated with a … once we implement a fixed effects approach that accounts for time-invariant factors common to mothers. While reducing …
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Sex ratios at birth shape populations and are linked to maternal health and gender discrimination. We estimate the effect of prenatal temperature exposure on birth sex by linking data on 5 million births in 33 sub-Saharan African countries and India with high-resolution temperature data. We find...
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also improved the health of newborns of affected new mothers and reduced the likelihood of miscarriages. …
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children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by …
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The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs)...
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We exploit a large-scale natural experiment - the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland - to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines,...
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