the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … employment, suggesting that non-traditional gender norms mediate on the employment gender gap mainly via motherhood … grandmothers were 20 years old. We also account for the endogeneity of motherhood with the level of reproductive health …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …

by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …

, and working mothers are on a path toward a high-wage equilibrium, slow convergence can permanently lose earnings. We use … and labor earnings. We show how these dynamics are determined by the interplay between the supply and demand sides of the … labor market. The model can generate and explain the different dynamics of women’s earnings after childbirth documented in …

Does employment during motherhood change peoples preferences? We study whether the experience of employment during …'s employment on children's wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines … substantially for 3-4 years following a child’s cancer diagnosis. Fathers’ incomes recover fully, but mothers’ incomes remain 3 …

in STEM occupations, earn less, and have more children. Our findings show that the school peer environment has lasting …

explanation for the gender gap in earnings …

We study the optimal long-term care policy when informal care can be provided by children in exchange for monetary … transfers by their elderly parents. We consider a bargaining model with single-child families. Daughters have a lower labor … benefits and transfers to working children. If the policy is restricted to be gender neutral, we find that the informal care …