Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous … precipitation at the time of the accident. We find robust empirical evidence of compensating investment behavior by parents in …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which … of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

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

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent … negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal …