effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … for 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 …

mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a difference-in-differences approach to register data on all births in … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health … were small and insignificant. The adverse effects on mothers are mainly driven by crowding effects at remaining wards …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the …

that Muslims are the youngest when becoming pregnant for the first time. Protestants delay first pregnancy, but once being … pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to … first pregnancy and its outcome, Catholics surprisingly compare to non‐religious women. Against the background of increasing …

during pregnancy. Moreover, those who did not use assisted reproductive technology present a higher prevalence of these … disappears for mothers in "education, training, and library" occupations, revealing that season of birth is a matter of choice … mothers who report to have chosen season of birth is 19% of financial wealth while for those who report not to have chosen it …

marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …

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

pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …, understanding the relationship between temperature and pregnancy-related outcomes is far from perfect. Importantly, the potential …

family life issues reduce probability of teenage pregnancy. Age is positively related to teenage pregnancies, with older …

the pregnancy to end in an abortion frequently pre-empt an "assigned" miscarriage. I describe evidence that this problem …