Arbeitspapier
Maternal Stress during Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development
There is a consensus in the literature on the relevance of the first 1,000 days since conception in the development of a child's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. However, little is known of the determinants of these skills at that age, as previous literature has focused on the effect of in utero and early childhood shocks on outcomes at birth or at age 7 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, exposed children had a lower level of development, cognition skills, and more attention problems relative to children not exposed to in utero stress. We also find that the negative impacts are observed if in-utero stress occurs during the first trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and attention problems occur among high-income children, and boys suffer lower development and worse attention problems, while girls' cognition is negatively affected by in-utero stress.
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Englisch
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11452
Health: General
Health: Other
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
stress
early childhood development
maternal stress
maternal mental health
earthquake
Chile
Kruger, Diana
Sánchez, Rafael
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Berthelon, Matias
- Kruger, Diana
- Sánchez, Rafael
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2018
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