This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal … 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 …

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive … exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … robust positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is … the increase in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school … 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 …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with …

related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …

joint income taxation of married couples on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and … simulated instrumental variable approach, I find a negative impact of joint income taxation on the marriage rate for couples … married between 2012 and 2019. The effect is driven by households without children and from the lower end of the income …

and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty … significant determinants of child marriage. Our results which control for province fixed effects (e.g. local cultural norms or …