ArticleDemography2018
Maternal Age and Child Development.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 122 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Socioeconomic determinants of extreme perinatal outcomes in Spain, 1996-2022.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Child inhibitory control in toddlerhood: associations with child interaction skills with the mother.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Uncovering the determinants of high-risk age at childbirth in Bangladesh: A machine learning analysis of the BDHS 2022 data.PloS one · 2026Article
- Impact of mother's mass media exposure on early childhood development in pakistan: urban vs. rural analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Toward New Directions in Human Biology: A Roadmap for Anthropological Causal Inference With Observational Data.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Linking mother's demographic disadvantages with children's demographic outcomes in India: a pseudo cohort study.Population health metrics · 2025Article
- Adolescent motherhood and the development of adolescent Offspring: Examining the role of selection versus early environmental factors.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Maternal alcohol dependence symptoms, maternal insensitivity to children's distress, and young children's blunted emotional reactivity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- No evidence of positive causal effects of maternal and paternal age at first birth on children's test scores at age 10 years.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Multifinality in pathways from early ecological adversity to children's future self-regulation: Elucidating mechanisms, moderators, and their developmental timing.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- A review of the association between in vitro fertilization and children's neurocognitive development.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025Review
- Maternal Immune Activation and Child Brain Development: A Longitudinal Population-Based Multimodal Neuroimaging Study.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Article
- Cognitive, Behavioral and Educational Outcomes in Children Aged 5-11 Years With Spina Bifida in Northern Ireland.Birth defects research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Although the consequences of teen births for both mothers and children have been studied for decades, few studies have taken a broader look at the potential payoffs-and drawbacks-of being born to older mothers. A broader examination is important given the growing gap in maternal ages at birth for children born to mothers with low and high socioeconomic status. Drawing data from the Children of the NLSY79, our examination of this topic distinguishes between the value for children of being born to a mother who delayed her first birth and the value of the additional years between her first birth and the birth of the child whose achievements and behaviors at ages 10-13 are under study. We find that each year the mother delays a first birth is associated with a 0.02 to 0.04 standard deviation increase in school achievement and a similar-sized reduction in behavior problems. Coefficients are generally as large for additional years between the first and given birth. Results are fairly robust to the inclusion of cousin and sibling fixed effects, which attempt to address some omitted variable concerns. Our mediational analyses show that the primary pathway by which delaying first births benefits children is by enabling mothers to complete more years of schooling.
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