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. …

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 …

Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … decisions, I instrument for individual schooling using cohort-level mean maternal years of schooling from previous decennial … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …

children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … who were exposed to more schooling opportunities during childhood demonstrate less hostility toward their children when …-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the …

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … identify the causal effect of maternal education, we exploit exogenous variation in maternal years of schooling, caused by a …