We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the … stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based … between mothers that could bias estimates. Our results are consistent with recent experimental results in the neurobiological …

effects is maternal stress …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …

and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 …

weight and gestation length among mothers who were pregnant during this period. In addition to the common notion that … conflict intensity induces stress and anxiety, we also show that conflict intensity is correlated with absences from work and … lack of prenatal care. Results on changes in birth outcomes are consistent with a detrimental effect of stress and reduced …

We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the … deal with identification issues that have obscured previous estimates. Our findings show that prenatal maternal stress … seems to affect fetal growth, because infants born to mothers exposed to earth tremors in early and/or mid gestation are …