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A new quantile treatment effect model for studying smoking effect on birth weight during mother's pregnancy
Tang, Shengfang; Cai, Zongwu; Fang, Ying; Lin, Ming - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203106
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A new quantile treatment effect model for studying smoking effect on birth weight during Mother's pregnancy
Tang, Shengfang; Cai, Zongwu; Fang, Ying; Lin, Ming - In: Journal of management science and engineering 6 (2021) 3, pp. 336-343
This paper proposes a new quantile regression model to characterize the heterogeneity for distributional effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on infant birth weight across different the mother's age. By imposing a parametric restriction on the quantile functions of the potential outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206377
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Geographically weighted bivariate generalized Poisson regression : application to infant and maternal mortality data
Purhadi; Sutikno; Berliana, Sarni Maniar; Setiawan, … - In: Letters in spatial and resource sciences : LSRS 14 (2021) 1, pp. 79-99
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497243
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Do maternal health problems influence child's worrying status? : evidence from British cohort study
Dai, Xianhua; Härdle, Wolfgang; Yu, Keming - 2014
The influence of maternal health problems on child's worrying status is important in practice in terms of the intervention of maternal health problems early for the influence on child's worrying status. Conventional methods apply symmetric prior distributions such as a normal distribution or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253468
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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002
In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436265
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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483199
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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346608
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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458811
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Family planning program effects : a review of evidence from microdata
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460250
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Cutting fertility : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472167