maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs …

establish whether this is causal, or whether it arises because mothers who breastfeed tend to be those whose children would do …This paper uses Propensity Score Matching to investigate the causal effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive … only children's health, but also their cognitive skills. -- Breastfeeding ; Cognitive Outcomes ; Child Development ; ALSPAC …

for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …We show that children who are born at the weekend or just before are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development …

breastfeeding support policies across UK maternity hospitals. Based on data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we find that mothers … exclusively at 4 and 8 weeks than mothers who give birth in other hospitals. The effect of breastfeeding are found to be large and …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …