Long commutes to work during pregnancy and infant health at birth

•The first study on the effects of long commutes during pregnancy on infant health.•Unique data on women's home addresses and their employers’ addresses during pregnancy.•A 10-mile increase in travel distance raises the probability of low birth weight by 0.9 percentage points.•A 10-mile increas...

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Volume:	35
Main Author:	Wang, Yang Yang, Muzhe
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.12.2019 ELSEVIER
published in:	Economics and human biology Vol. 35; pp. 1 - 17
Data of publication:	December 2019
ISSN:	1570-677X 1873-6130
EISSN:	1873-6130
Discipline:	Anatomy & Physiology Economics
Subjects:	Birth outcomes Travel distance Maternal stress Long commutes Prenatal visits Economics Business & Economics Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Pregnancy Birth Weight Infant, Low Birth Weight Infant Health - statistics & numerical data Time Factors Transportation - statistics & numerical data Humans Fetal Growth Retardation - epidemiology Stress, Psychological - epidemiology Female Infant, Newborn Prenatal Care Index Medicus Birth outcomes Maternal stress Long commutes Prenatal visits I10 I12 Travel distance J13 DEPRESSION DISTANCE BARRIERS OUTCOMES STRESS BENEFITS AGE
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2019 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2019 Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS