This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique … about war casualties and Nazi raids across space (Municipality) and time. We find that prenatal stress exposure leads to … further show that workers exposed to in-utero stress face larger earnings reductions after job loss due to mass layoffs. This …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

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 …

and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 …

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

to transfer their human capital to their children. Finally, focusing only on non-infected mothers and their children, we …) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … their children. The data also allow us to distinguish between two separate channels that are likely to differentially affect …

health status and medical utilization for children with working and nonworking mothers. We find that the child's health …This study investigates the effect of the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program on children's health outcomes … been credited with increased employment for single mothers and a dramatic drop in welfare caseload. Our results show that …

care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three … improve worker effort and communication with mothers, who in turn feed a more calorific diet to their children at home. … in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers …

weight and gestation length among mothers who were pregnant during this period. In addition to the common notion that … conflict intensity induces stress and anxiety, we also show that conflict intensity is correlated with absences from work and … lack of prenatal care. Results on changes in birth outcomes are consistent with a detrimental effect of stress and reduced …

effects is maternal stress. …