Background & Aims: Detection of maternal risk factors associated with neonatal mortality helps to identify high-risk infants and prevent neonatal death. It can also contribute to the design more effective prenatal care. This study was performed aiming to evaluate the maternal risk factors associated with mortality in preterm infants in Mashhad Ghaem Hospital, Iran, during 2009-2014. Methods: Th...

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and age-at-birth on children’s short long-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility earnings unaffected. Being reduces gestation and, hence, child weight. The weight rather small, howev...