Background: More intense cyclones are expected in the future as a result of climate change.
A comprehensive review is urgently needed to summarize and update the evidence on the …

Social adversity can increase the age-associated risk of disease and death, yet the
biological mechanisms that link social adversities to aging remain poorly understood. Long …

This paper investigates the persistent effects of negative shocks in utero and in infancy on
low-income children's health and cognitive outcomes and examines whether timing of …

This paper investigates the less discernible cost of rainfall shocks to birth weight outcomes
in the context of Vietnam. Exploiting the variation across districts and conception months …

We study the effects of in utero exposure to terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on
terrorism perpetrated by ETA during the period 1980–2003. We find that in utero exposure to …

We investigate the effect of extreme heat on birth outcomes and how this effect may vary by
family socioeconomic status (SES). We create a detailed data set by linking individual-level …

This study sought to advance understanding of the potential long‐term consequences of the
COVID‐19 pandemic for child development by characterizing trajectories of maternal …

This study sought to understand the experiences of female 11th-graders in English classes
that used Google Classroom applications during emergent e-learning due to COVID-19 …

Based on an unexplored data set on disasters in Brazil, the current study shows that the
direct damage of natural disasters reduces the GDP growth rate of municipal economies in …

The intrauterine period is a time of high sensitivity in the development of the embryo and the
fetus. Therefore, low levels of maternal stress are closely associated with healthy brain …