The effect of pregnancy intention on child development
The effect of pregnancy intention on child development
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DOI：
10.2307/2648098
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发表时间：
2000-02-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Korenman, S
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作者：
Joyce, TJ;Kaestner, R;Korenman, S
在本文中，我们使用全国青年纵向调查的数据来调查意外怀孕与儿童健康和发育之间的经验联系。我们的研究的一个重要贡献是使用信息的兄弟姐妹控制的不可测量的因素，可能混淆的估计怀孕的意图对婴儿和儿童的结果的影响。我们的研究结果表明，意外怀孕与产前和产后母亲的行为，对婴儿和儿童的健康产生不利影响，但意外怀孕与出生体重和儿童认知结果几乎没有关联。在未测量的家庭背景的控制包括在模型中后，意外怀孕和母亲行为之间的关联估计大大降低。我们的研究结果还表明，有没有显着差异，在母亲的行为或孩子的结果之间的不合时宜和想要怀孕。
In this paper, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the empirical link between unintended pregnancy and child health and development. An important contribution of our study is the use of information on siblings to control for unmeasured factors that may confound estimates of the effect of pregnancy intentions on infant and child outcomes. Results from our study indicate that unwanted pregnancy is associated with prenatal and postpartum maternal behaviors that adversely affect infant and child health, but that unwanted pregnancy has little association with birth weight and child cognitive outcomes. Estimates of the association between unwanted pregnancy and maternal behaviors were greatly reduced after controls for unmeasured family background were included in the model. Our results also indicate that there are no significant differences in maternal behaviors or child outcomes between mistimed and wanted pregnancies.