that single women become mothers of young children. We use probit regression to analyze individual data from the U … market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women's earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter … married women's property acts (MWPAs). Scholarly interest in the acts' effects is growing. Researchers have examined how the …

children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women's and their spouse's labour … (CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers … education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption … in marriage formation. …

related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time …

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 …

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a … data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … 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 …

instrumental variables estimation to allow for the possibility of endogeneity of the respondent s self-employment status and …We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises …