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

family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … out of the labor force during the entirety of her children’s adolescent years. Our identification strategy is, therefore …, in the spirit of traditional difference-in-differences, the first difference pertaining to the differences in children …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before … intervention has no direct effect on the health outcome but influences the outcome only through its effect on individual behavior … behavior, for which a conditional before-after assumption is more plausible; and (ii) the effect of the behaviour on the health …

children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women's and their spouse's labour …