seems to affect fetal growth, because infants born to mothers exposed to earth tremors in early and/or mid gestation are … more likely to be large for gestational age. The estimates suggest that relatively poorer Chilean mothers are more … evidence that suggests a possible mechanism that explains the varying results across socioeconomic status. Mothers with …

the following growth indicators of children born to adolescent mothers (age 19 years or below) with those born to older … regression-based estimates, children born to adolescent mothers were 0.01m (95% CI: -0.02, -0.01; p<0.01) shorter and weighed 0 ….2kg (-0.32, -0.07; p<0.01) less than children of older mothers at age 0-5 years. At age 6-12 years, those born to …

. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children … ratios, that is, with more children and/or seniors per working-age adult, grow significantly slower. Such effects are … particularly pronounced for cities with high shares of children. This result appears to be driven mainly by the direct, negative …

evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development … monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county …