ArticlePloS one2022
Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes.
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- Preventing posttraumatic stress disorder following childbirth: a systematic review and meta-analysis.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2024Pooled it
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- Birth outcomes in single motherhood 'by choice': a register study of children conceived through medically assisted reproduction.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- The effect of antenatal common mental disorders on infant birth weight at the Dabat health and demographic surveillance site, Northwest Ethiopia: a community-based cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Association of Substance Use and Psychological Conditions With Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.JACC. Advances · 2026Article
- Depressive symptoms and associated factors among women preparing for pregnancy: a population-based study from the Seoul metropolitan preconception health management program.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Trajectories of childhood adversity, social welfare dependence in young adulthood, and the mediating role of mental health problems: a Danish population-based cohort study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Global, regional and national prevalence of mental disorders among women at childbearing age from 1992 to 2021.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Association of prenatal parabens exposure with adverse pregnancy outcomes: the role of prenatal depressive symptoms.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Association between poor mental health in mothers and child stunting: a population-based cross-sectional study in Rwanda.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Impact of mental health distress on preconception health.Intelligent hospital · 2025Article
- Online conversations on perceived stigma among pregnant individuals who use cannabis.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Article
- Major Factors Contributing to Positive and Negative Childbirth Experiences in Pregnant Women Living with HIV.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Implementing a trilineage differentiation in the ReproTracker assay for improved teratogenicity assessment.Frontiers in toxicology · 2025Article
- Associations between mental health conditions in pregnancy and maternal socioeconomic status: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada.BMC women's health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recent research in economics emphasizes the role of in utero conditions for the health endowment at birth and in early childhood and for social as well as economic outcomes in later life. This paper analyzes the relation between maternal mental health during pregnancy and birth outcomes of the child. In particular, we analyze the relationship between maternal mental health during pregnancy and the probability of giving birth preterm (PT), having a newborn at low birth weight (LBW) or being small for gestational age (SGA). Based on large population-representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and cohort data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we present extensive descriptive evidence on the relationship between maternal mental health and preterm birth by carrying out OLS estimates controlling for a wide range of socioeconomic characteristics. In addition, we apply matching estimators and mother fixed effects models, which bring us closer toward a causal interpretation of estimates. In summary, the results uniformly provide evidence that poor maternal mental health is a risk factor for preterm birth and low birth weight in offspring. In contrast, we find no evidence for an relationship between maternal mental health and small for gestational age at birth.
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