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. …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal … age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for …

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. …