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. …

focus concerns the distinct roles of maternal schooling versus maternal nutrition knowledge as determinants of micronutrient … determinants include: child gender and age, household expenditure levels, access to water, and maternal nutrition knowledge …. Maternal schooling contributes to child micronutrient directly, but also through its effects on nutrition knowledge 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 …