emphasizes the importance of focusing on pregnancy health education, particularly for low-income women, as a potential way to …

presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes, using unique linked … crimes, and focus on mothers who lived in a home where an assault was reported during their pregnancies. We compare these … mothers to women who lived in a home with an assault that took place shortly after the birth. We find that assaults in the 3rd …

consequences on mental health in adulthood, as captured by 11 and 9 percent increases in the consumption of prescription drugs … Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Further, children exposed prenatally to the death of a relative up to four generations …

extreme heat increases the risk of maternal hospitalization during pregnancy, and that this effect is larger for black than … for white mothers. At childbirth, heat-exposed mothers are more likely to have hypertension and have longer hospital stays … in the first year of life. Our results provide new estimates of the health costs of climate change and identify …

extreme heat increases the risk of maternal hospitalization during pregnancy, and that this effect is larger for black than … for white mothers. At childbirth, heat-exposed mothers are more likely to have hypertension and have longer hospital stays … in the first year of life. Our results provide new estimates of the health costs of climate change and identify …

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 …

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 …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …

This paper investigates the consequences of prenatal exposure to hot temperatures on child health in Sub-Saharan Africa … of the Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on the presence of heat waves and their magnitude since … the 1980s, we investigate the effects of inutero exposure to heat waves on several birth and early childhood health …

We identify the causal effect of mothers' mental health during early - and soon after pregnancy on a range of child … we find that mental health during or soon after pregnancy raises breastfeeding and improves measures of interaction … psychological, socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes measured between ages 4-16. Results suggest a negative effect on children …