) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … the intergenerational transfers: mother's HIV status and community HIV prevalence. First, we find that mothers transfer 37 … mother's HIV status has large detrimental effect on inheritability of human capital. HIV-infected mothers are 30% less likely …

likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails … mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …

mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a difference-in-differences approach to register data on all births in … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health … were small and insignificant. The adverse effects on mothers are mainly driven by crowding effects at remaining wards …