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

using a unique dataset from Norway, we examine both short-run and long-run outcomes for the same cohorts. We find that birth … of children from poorer families …

This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find …-anxiety and depression medications in adulthood. Further, family ruptures during pregnancy depress birth outcomes and raise the … fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food … Americans, with larger impacts for births to African American mothers …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

stress, our results are supportive of the idea that stressful events in pregnancy can damage the health of the fetus. However …A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of … during pregnancy. The data allow us to measure outcomes precisely and to follow the same mother over time; we also suggest …

identification of causal effects is particularly challenging in this literature because women enter pregnancy with varying states of … health, resources and the desire to have a child and it is not feasible to conduct randomized controlled trials that deny …

-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the … whether parental participation in such programs measurably benefits children. This paper begins to fill this gap in the … literature by examining the relationship between a mother's participation during pregnancy in Aid to Families with Dependent …

This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … birth and on the use of prenatal care and infant health, controlling for year and state effects and state-specific trends … construct estimates of the effect of health insurance on use of prenatal care and infant health. We find that the eligibility …

We examine the impact of three quot;criteriaquot; air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by … mothers, we select those mothers closest to air monitors to ensure a more accurate measure of air quality. Second, since we … follow mothers over time, we control for unobserved characteristics of mothers using maternal fixed effects. Third, we …