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

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 …

Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to … Oil Spill Monitor and the Demographic and Health Surveys, and rely on the comparison of siblings conceived before and … across locations and socio-economic backgrounds. We also provide some evidence for negative health effects of nearby oil …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … fixed effects estimation. We obtain modest but significant effects of fetal growth rate on math and reading scores, with the …

children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … backgrounds and boys. For individuals from high socioeconomic backgrounds, it might be driven by a better health. …

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …

on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated …