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

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

mitigate the need for initial self-selection in health and facilitate the migration experience abroad …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …’ preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …

derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable …This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …