physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …

WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers …, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers’ chances to be at the top of their companies’ pay ranking or in leadership … and promotions. No reform affected fathers’ pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … driven by a positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that … socioeconomic backgrounds and boys. For individuals from high socioeconomic backgrounds, it might be driven by a better health …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …