imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or postpartum depression. Instead, they are related to mothers' higher … investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …

for both mothers and children, measured at primary-school age, and broke the intergenerational association of these …

non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … and girls losing their mothers. Depression is the most common cause of hospitalization in the first three years following … children. …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines … substantially for 3-4 years following a child's cancer diagnosis. Fathers' incomes recover fully, but mothers' incomes remain 3 …

show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …