of school test scores when children, in addition to labor market income when adults. Today, however, with increasing … ensuring that mothers receive adequate support during pregnancy. In this study we find that cognitive outcomes are adversely …

during the pandemic are shorter as children/adolescents and less educated compared to other birth cohorts. We also find that … they are more likely to have serious health problems including kidney disease, circulatory and respiratory problems, and … diabetes in old age. Despite possible positive selection on health outcomes due to high infant mortality rates during this …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …

these laws may have also increased cigarette use during pregnancy by making it more difficult to use e-cigarettes to reduce …

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test … and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in early pregnancy. These estimates are downward biased to the extent that …

We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference … health. MMLs had no significant effect on maternal substance use disorder hospitalizations nor on newborn health and fairly …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …. We find robust evidence that working in a relatively more strenuous job during pregnancy raises the likelihood of fetal …

Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this … association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989 …, suggesting that avoiding Ramadan exposure during pregnancy is costly or the long-term effects of fasting unknown …

children are released into the air. In this paper we estimate the effect of these releases on the health of newborns. Using …