identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …

liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a greater share of the total number of paid hours worked within their …

mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers. …

, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We find that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important …