, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence … compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a result of their households' lower socioeconomic status. …

Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 - 2009 together with additional administrative data. Both a single-level model and a multi … on birth weight. The results imply that infant health can be improved by using prenatal care adequately. The study calls … for the pursuit of policies that encourage adequate use of prenatal care by expectant mothers such as ensuring …

siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare …

disappears for mothers in "education, training, and library" occupations, revealing that season of birth is a matter of choice … mothers who report to have chosen season of birth is 19% of financial wealth while for those who report not to have chosen it … better health at birth even conditional on the observable maternal characteristics which predict selection. …