battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants … those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 …

-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 … effects is maternal stress. …

We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the … deal with identification issues that have obscured previous estimates. Our findings show that prenatal maternal stress … seems to affect fetal growth, because infants born to mothers exposed to earth tremors in early and/or mid gestation are …