intervention significantly improved maternal mental health, especially among mothers of boys. It resulted in imprecisely estimated … cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The … analysis of mechanisms reveals that the intervention modified the production function of children's skills, by lowering the …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children … births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non-IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor market …

that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs … and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional and health domains, and we show that this contributes …

perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the … treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to …

for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We …

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …