There are growing concerns about the impact of pollution on maternal and infant health. In the UK in 2018, 36% of local …. Using a population database of births in Northern Ireland linked to localised geographic information on pollution in mothers … comprehensive range of birth outcomes. Overall, we find little evidence that particulate matter is related to worse infant outcomes …

siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 … small for gestational age (LGA, SGA), c-section, infant doctor visits, mother's and infant's days in hospital post …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare …

variation in contraceptive access to demonstrate that it reduced the rates of both extremely preterm births and infant mortality … positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long … suggesting that this program led to reductions of 2.5 extremely preterm births and 1.3 infant deaths per 1,000 live births across …

a crucial role in family dynamics. While previous research has established that public early childcare affects child … reveal an intra-household transmission of communicable diseases: mothers experience 4–8% more infections and 2–4% more … respiratory diseases for a 10 percentage point rise in childcare coverage rates when their children are 1–2 years old. In contrast …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the … school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …

We document increased old-age mortality rates among Swedish twin mothers compared to non-twin mothers. Results are … pension income shows the highest increase in mortality rates among highly educated mothers and those with above-median pension … income. These results are consistent with the existence of a double burden from child rearing and working on mothers’ health. …