origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family … Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Further, children exposed prenatally to the death of a relative up to four generations … severe stress; the decrease in consumption of prescription drugs treating depression alone can be valued at nearly $1 billion …

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and … 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 …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

the first and third trimesters of pregnancy. Our estimates are similar when we focus on just the impact of the initial … effects is maternal stress. …

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 …