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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviat...Read more...

Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn van Ewijk

18 January 2012

CEP discussion paper
Long-Term Health Effects on the Next Generation of Ramadan Fasting During Pregnancy

Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of...Read more...

Reyn van Ewijk

April 2009

CEP discussion paper
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Early Child Outcomes

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoki...Read more...

Emma Tominey

October 2007

CEP discussion paper
The Long-Run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Britain

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However, the decisions to be a teenage mother, to quit school, and be less attached to the labour market might a...Read more...

Arnaud Chevalier and Tarja K. Viitanen

January 2002