a reduction in the incidence of LBW and SGA, especially in the second trimester during pregnancy. This finding was …

overall health status at birth. These effects are mainly driven by pollution exposure during the third trimester of pregnancy …We investigate the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on health outcomes at birth in Italy in the 2000s … disadvantaged mothers are more vulnerable. Given the non negligible effects of pollution on birth outcomes, further policy efforts …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health.Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is … meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of maternal displacements during pregnancy on birth outcomes by leveraging … separation of pregnant single mothers leads to a decrease in birth weight (BW) by around 28 grams (-1% ca.) and an increase in … incidence of low BW for mothers in a marriage or stable union. We document more pronounced negative effects for single mothers …

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and … child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed …, exposed children had a lower level of development, cognition skills, and more attention problems relative to children not …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … 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 …

premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to … attributed to changes in the demographic composition of mothers. We next exploit county-level variation in the timing of these …

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 …

-range of birth outcomes, including birth weight, gestational age and an indicator of general newborn health. We control for … of having a late birth and negatively affected newborn health - with the largest effects for earthquakes that occurred in … the first and third trimesters of pregnancy. Our estimates are similar when we focus on just the impact of the initial …