Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes

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Autoren

  • Falk A.C. Voit
  • Eero Kajantie
  • Sakari Lemola
  • Katri Räikkönen
  • Dieter Wolke
  • Daniel D. Schnitzlein

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Externe Organisationen

  • University of Oulu
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
  • Universität Bielefeld
  • University of Warwick
  • Universität Helsinki
  • Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere0272210
FachzeitschriftPLOS ONE
Jahrgang17
Ausgabenummer8
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 31 Aug. 2022

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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Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes. / Voit, Falk A.C.; Kajantie, Eero; Lemola, Sakari et al.
in: PLOS ONE, Jahrgang 17, Nr. 8, e0272210, 31.08.2022.

Publikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Forschung › Peer-Review

Voit, FAC, Kajantie, E, Lemola, S, Räikkönen, K, Wolke, D & Schnitzlein, DD 2022, 'Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes', PLOS ONE, Jg. 17, Nr. 8, e0272210. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272210
Voit, F. A. C., Kajantie, E., Lemola, S., Räikkönen, K., Wolke, D., & Schnitzlein, D. D. (2022). Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes. PLOS ONE, 17(8), Artikel e0272210. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272210
Voit FAC, Kajantie E, Lemola S, Räikkönen K, Wolke D, Schnitzlein DD. Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes. PLOS ONE. 2022 Aug 31;17(8):e0272210. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272210
Voit, Falk A.C. ; Kajantie, Eero ; Lemola, Sakari et al. / Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes. in: PLOS ONE. 2022 ; Jahrgang 17, Nr. 8.
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