health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the … information on children's health, family background, mothers' pre-birth work histories and mothers' health behaviours during … the effect on multiple conditions is strongest for children from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Our study implies that …

weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …

a policy change that took place in 1990 in Austria which extended the maximum duration of parental leave from the child … children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy which … probability in the following ten years. This suggests that not only the timing but also the number of children were affected by …

market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … adults, particularly for disadvantaged children; however the gains may be less pronounced when high quality subsidized child …

these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major parental leave policy changes in Austria, we find that longer cash …