children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … educated mothers are particularly responsive to changes in environmental amenities. I estimate that differences in exposure to … toxic releases may explain 6% of the gap in incidence of low birth weight between infants of white college educated mothers …

construct more relevant control groups for teenage mothers. We find evidence that teenage childbearing likely reduces the …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …

In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also … estimator to identify the impact of smoking on babies of teen and non-teen mothers. We find that both OLS and matching estimator …

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for … restricted to relatively long maternal work hours. Less intensive employment is often associated with favorable outcomes and …