's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … out of the labor force during the entirety of her children’s adolescent years. Our identification strategy is, therefore …, in the spirit of traditional difference-in-differences, the first difference pertaining to the differences in children …

with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care … concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …