We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the … seems to affect fetal growth, because infants born to mothers exposed to earth tremors in early and/or mid gestation are … more likely to be large for gestational age. The estimates suggest that relatively poorer Chilean mothers are more …

Adolescent motherhood has been linked with poor health outcomes at birth for children, including high neonatal … mortality, low-birth weight, and small-for-gestational age rates. However, longer term growth outcomes in the children of … the following growth indicators of children born to adolescent mothers (age 19 years or below) with those born to older …

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development …-by-county rollout from 1950 to 2010, we find that full exposure to the SMC from birth increases lifetime income by 5%. We further …