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 …

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 …

Early life conditions have been linked to various domains of later life health, including cardiovascular outcomes … health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential … omitted variable bias by using aggregate measures of public health at birth, which are plausibly exogenous to the individual …

productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected … crop yields and child health imputed to precipitations alone. The findings are applied to model projections of future …

in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …