While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous … programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes … through positively affecting parenting. In a context where socioeconomic inequalities in health have yet to emerge, modest …

particular when depth, severity and persistence of obesity are accounted for. Girls whose mothers fail to complete secondary …

months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … mothers. Quantile regression finds that the children most impacted by maternal employment are those at the upper percentiles … pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …