's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements …

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal … 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 …

with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care … concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …, mothers “just” affected by the reform initially reduce subsequent childbearing and start to compensate by the end of the third … year. The negative effects are largely driven by lowest-income mothers, who are now worse-off and do not display any catch …

, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education and earnings …To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and … cognitive development of lower socioeconomic status children who reached maturity in the mid-20th century …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …