We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …