secure, and generated fewer adaptive coping strategies than children whose mothers had never had mental health problems …Mental health has implications for the quality of relationships within a family, particularly between parents and … attachment in families with mental health problems, but relationship representations as experienced by these children, especially …

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 … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …

perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the … treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to …

study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children … effects are mediated primarily through subsequent maternal mental and physical health problems. …

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and … attention problems occur among high-income children, and boys suffer lower development and worse attention problems, while girls …

Many women who give birth during their teenage years face lifetime disadvantages in health, social and economic domains …. To develop effective policies to support these teenage mothers, it is important to understand how the disadvantage … evolves over time to target the timing of any interventions. This paper focuses on health outcomes and seeks to determine the …