Maternity leave policies are designed to safeguard the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However … caused by work in the third trimester of pregnancy. We find no evidence for significant effects of this extension on children …'s health at birth or long-term health and labor market outcomes. Subsequent maternal health and fertility are also unaffected …

Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings who were gestating before versus after a Toxic Release Inventory …

associations with long-term health, educational and labour-market outcomes. This paper exploits intergenerational information on … three generations (grandparents-parents-children) to explore the effects of parental education and different parental …. We employ rich intergenerational data drawn from the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and a …

We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start … discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the children of women born in January versus the previous December, using … children of December-born mothers, the children of January-born mothers are more likely to have very low birthweight. We then …

Children form social ties along dimensions of gender and race/ethnicity, and thus may differ greatly in exposure to … peer health and also in reactivity to peer influence. This paper estimates heterogeneity in the peer effects of obesity … New York City (NYC) FITNESSGRAM initiative on over 1.6 million children in grades K-8, we find that males and females are …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …